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Coffee House Shots

Can the G7 beat Russia and China's vaccine diplomacy?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

As the G7 rolls on and the world leaders learn where their peers stand on certain issues post Covid, the wealthy western nations need to decide how best to help vaccinate the world's poorer countries without risking their own rollouts at home. Cindy Yu talks to Katy Balls and James Forsyth.

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0:00.0

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0:24.8

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics podcast.

0:28.6

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Boers and James Ossife.

0:33.3

So the G7 is well and truly underway now. Katie, what are we seeing this morning?

0:40.1

So we're now seeing the G7 move to something G4 Johnson wants to talk about, which is vaccines,

0:46.2

and this is ultimately bringing all these world leaders together in terms of how do you get through the pandemic globally.

0:50.1

And particularly poorer countries, what duty is on the leaders gathered,

0:55.7

many of them are leading countries which are very far ahead with their vaccine rollout to help out and can you do it as someone said by the end of the year. I think we're going to be hearing

0:59.8

various strategies for it. I mean in terms of what Boris Johnson wants to do, he says the UK is going

1:05.2

to start donating coronavirus vaccines to poorer countries in the next few weeks. More than

1:10.4

100 million surplus doses will be delivered in the next year.

1:13.9

And then we've also got Joe Biden, who has promised 500 million doses of Pfizer vaccines

1:17.8

to 92 lower middle-income countries.

1:20.8

And I think there's a question on A, what is the times frame on all this?

1:25.4

And two, I think, particularly on the UK side, the UK's

1:30.0

vaccination programme is not complete. As more time goes on, it gets more complicated. I'm sure we're

1:35.7

going to talk about it shortly, but even if you look at the chat around June 21, there is a sense

1:41.6

that, is one jab enough? Should you wait for everyone to have one jab?

1:45.0

You feel the conversation is inevitably going to move on to, you know,

1:48.2

a scientist then saying, well, actually, shouldn't we just wait for everyone to have two jeffs?

1:51.1

And we might get into conversation about booster shots.

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