UK Covid live: Johnson to make vaccine pledge to poorer nations as he chairs G7 meeting

Latest updates: PM expected to say that the UK will share any surplus vaccines; primary school students to return to class in Wales on 15 MarchBoris Johnson to pledge surplus Covid vaccine to poorer countries at G7New universal credit claimants forced to skip meals in Covid crisisCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage 10.13am GMT This thread is from the BBC’s Nick Robinson:We’re not New Zealand. We can’t eliminate COVID-19 @fmwales tells me on @BBCr4today https://t.co/Hy7hOveIxT 10.09am GMT Global health authorities should aim to swiftly distribute four billion doses of vaccine worldwide, according to professor of epidemiology and public health at University College London, Sir Michael Marmot.He told Times Radio: Worldwide we probably ought to be aiming for about four billion doses of vaccine quickly. Four billion because we want 20% of the world’s population to have two doses, 20% in each country. We’re hoping in the end to vaccinate everyone in Britain, but if we manage it, what’s that going to be 100 million doses? It’s a drop in the bucket. We need really to be gearing up, scaling up, and Covax is the potential vehicle for doing it... on a mass scale to get vaccine out to the global population. I think we ought to be dealing with the global population almost as if it were at home. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2021/feb/19/uk-covid-live-boris-johnson-vaccine-g7-meeting-coronavirus-latest-updates #coronavirus #politics #uk_news #science #infectious_diseases #nhs #g7 #boris_johnson #health #medical_research