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Virtual world summit on covid will glimpse an end to the pandemic
On May 12, the World Virtual Summit on covid will be held in the United States, whose main theme is to visualize the end of the pandemic and prepare a contingency plan to prevent other diseases from spreading in the future.
The information was released by the White House, since the US will be one of the co-leaders together with Germany, current president of the G7, Indonesia, who is in charge of the G20, Senegal, who chairs the African Union and by the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Belize.
Through a statement, the leaders of the future meeting emphasized that they will make every effort to prevent the advancement of new variants, but will also contribute to financing the global capacity
"Not only for emerging covid-19 variants, but also for future health crises."
fight against covid
With this summit, there are two that have been held since the pandemic began two years ago in China. To date , it has been the pandemic that has hit the world economy the hardest and left millions dead.
Since the start of vaccination, the number of deaths has decreased significantly, however, with the new variants that have been born, the spread has been faster, which is why the objective is to ensure that at least 70% of the population is inoculated against the coronavirus.
Despite this, not all countries and people have access to vaccines, there is also a significant movement against them. For this reason, the leaders of this summit come together to urge people, world leaders, NGOs to join efforts to combat covid.
