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US: Global summit to chart end to COVID-crisis to take place on May 12

The global summit is to create a framework in order to strategies the ways for the future on the recovery path after the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be on May 12. The White House made the statement on Monday, even as the President of the USA, Joe Bidden faces issues to receive pandemic funding from Congress.

The United States, with the G7 President Germany, G20 president Indonesia, African Union chair Senegal, and Belize, the current head of the CARICOM Caribbean grouping, will co-host the virtual gathering.

All of the nations mentioned in the joint statement, “The summit will redouble our collective efforts to end the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic and prepare for future health threats.”

Moreover, this will be the second global huddle on the pandemic, which has killed over six million individuals as well as has been triggered profound disruption to leading economies and the trading patterns in the two years from its starting it has been started.

Biden has hosted the same summit in the previous September month, at which he urged the partners to surge the vaccines and make sure that 70 percent of every nation had been vaccinated by the month of this September.

The death rates are increasing in the entire World Wide. The virus continues to spread, preventing most of the leading nations from fully lifting restrictions, while Shanghai in China is in the midst of a draconian lockdown.

The Summit hosts appealed to maintain the sense of urgency.

Along with this, the joint statement highlighted, “In advance of the May 12 summit, we are calling on world leaders, members of civil society, non-governmental organizations, philanthropists, and the private sector to make new commitments and bring solutions to vaccinate the world, save lives now, and build better health security — for everyone, everywhere.”

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