This is how the G7 countries plan to stop future pandemics in the first 100 days

Leaders from the G7 will commit to a new plan to prevent future pandemics within the first 100 days.

The world’s leading democracies gathered in Cornwill will agree to the “Carbis Bay Declaration”, promising a series of measures designed to prevent a repeat of the Covid-19 pandemic.

First 100 days ‘are crucial’

The UK will create a new animal vaccine centre aimed at preventing future diseases from crossing from animals to humans.

The UK government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and philanthropist Melinda French Gates will also present the findings from their work on pandemic preparedness partnership to the leaders of the G7 nations and guests.

The Carbis Bay Declaration will incorporate the recommendations of their findings, which highlight that the first 100 days after the identification of an epidemic threat are crucial to changing its course and preventing it from becoming a full scale pandemic.

The leaders of the G7 – the UK, US, Canada, Japan, France, Germany and Italy – will commit to measures aimed at slashing the time taken to develop and license vaccines, treatments and diagnostics for any future disease to under 100 days.

They will also promise to reinforce global surveillance networks and genomic sequencing capacity and support reforming and strengthening the World Health Organisation

‘Prevent a pandemic like this from ever happening again’

Boris Johnson said: “In the last year the world has developed several effective coronavirus vaccines, licensed and manufactured them at pace and is now getting them into the arms of the people who need them.

“But to truly defeat coronavirus and recover we need to prevent a pandemic like this from ever happening again. That means learning lessons from the last 18 months and doing it differently next time around.

“I am proud that for the first time today the world’s leading democracies have come together to make sure that never again will we be caught unawares.”

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