World leaders pledged to accelerate cooperation in the development of a vaccine against coronavirus and to spread the methods of treatment of patients from COVID-19 and drugs around the world. The United States refused to participate in a virtual meeting, which was convened at the initiative of the world health organization.
according to The Guardian, the meeting, which was attended by many leaders of the G20 countries, have demonstrated the increasing isolation of Donald trump on the world stage. The main result of the event was the decision that rich countries won’t hide the results of studies on the development of a vaccine for developing countries.
the Meeting also showed support for who from the world leaders in the long trump to suspend payments to this organization. The parties agreed the fourth, chaired by Britain to hold a joint global summit on combating coronavirus, aimed at raising funds for research, treatment and vaccine testing.
“We face a common threat that can be defeated by working together. Experience tells us that the cure for viruses is not equally available to all. We cannot allow this,” said who Director-General Dr tedros adhanom Ghebreyesus.
According to Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi Alliance, which conducts immunization campaigns in poor countries and actively cooperates with who, the world has developed more than 100 potential vaccines against COVID-19, six of them are undergoing clinical trials. According to Berkeley, it is necessary to avoid repeating the experience of 2009, when a vaccine against swine flu H1N1 has reached developing countries too late.
the participants of the meeting agreed on the final text of the document, including obligations to provide access to new treatments, technologies and vaccines around the world, adhere to the global international partnerships in research and coordination of efforts to combat the pandemic, to take collective decisions to respond to a pandemic, but also to learn from the experience of other countries, to be accountable to the most vulnerable communities and the world.
according to analysts, a very versatile and declarative tone promises contrasts with the reaction of many countries to the pandemic outbreak. In fact, many States have banned the export from their countries of medical equipment, closed borders, and even tried to steal equipment from each other. The degree of cooperation in the field of research of vaccines is also not uniform.
At the meeting it was decided to appoint two new special envoys for cooperation in the field of research on vaccines and ensure equal access to any successful vaccines. They were sir Andrew witty, the former head of the British farm��eticheskoe giant GSK and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, chair of the Gavi.
