Australia commits $100m to Covid vaccine deal at Quad meeting

Scott Morrison joins Joe Biden, Yoshihide Suga and Narendra Modi in plan to send 1bn coronavirus vaccines to Asian and Pacific island countries

A historic first meeting of leaders of the Quad - an informal grouping of Australia, the United States, India and Japan - has ended with a promise to boost manufacturing of the Covid-19 vaccine to help low-income countries and to keep international climate goals within reach.

The leaders during the meeting agreed to pool financing, manufacturing and distribution capacity to send 1 billion coronavirus vaccines to Asian and Pacific island countries by the end of 2022.