Gordon Brown calls for G7 to act on Covid vaccine ‘apartheid’
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Former prime minister says group should commit to global vaccine drive and slams UK's foreign aid cut
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Preventing poor countries suffering from vaccine apartheid" will require the G7 group of rich nations to commit $30bn (22bn) a year to a global immunisation drive, Gordon Brown has said.
The former Labour prime minister said the UK should use June's G7 summit in Cornwall to rekindle the moral purpose of the Make Poverty History campaign of 2005, paying for its share of the new fund by reversing the government's misguided" cut to the foreign aid budget.
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