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Africa CDC slams leaders for hollow vaccine pledges
Africa is facing a Covid-19 resurgence as it lags in the global vaccination drive, with just 3.18% of its 1.3-billion population fully innoculated.
Summit participants, including country delegation members and journalists, have to undergo regular screening using rapid tests two days before the start of the event.
The group of the world's wealthiest nations is meeting in the UK this week.
British finance minister Rishi Sunak was chairing the London meetings, held in person after an easing of COVID-19 restrictions and attended by counterparts from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US.
As he prepares to take his bid for COVID vaccine waivers to the G7 next week, President Ramaphosa says he would like to see black business at the forefront if the waiver is agreed to.
Ahead of a leaders meeting in Britain next month, G7 countries' climate and environment ministers also reaffirmed their commitment to limit keep temperature rises below 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050, following a two-day virtual meeting.
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump said the G7, which groups the world’s most advanced economies, was a “very outdated group of countries” in its current format.
A recovery in world stock markets and oil prices picked up the pace on Tuesday, as global policymakers signalled a united front to address the economic fallout from the spreading coronavirus.