Gordon Brown leads calls for $60bn of Covid support for poor countries
by Larry Elliott and Sarah Boseley from on (#5H7AM)
Former PM urges G7 leaders to help finance rapid immunisation programme to stem spread of virus
A whirlwind six-week campaign to persuade the UK-hosted G7 summit to fund a $60bn two-year vaccine and healthcare support package for poor countries is being spearheaded by the former prime minister Gordon Brown.
In a campaign backed by the Guardian, leaders of the west's leading economies are being urged to invest a fraction of the sums spent fighting Covid-19 domestically to help finance rapid immunisation programmes and the wider health response to the virus in less well-off countries, to check the virus's global spread.
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