G7 Summit: Leaders call for new study into origins of Covid, voice concern on China

An initial report published earlier to find the origin of the disease was deemed lacking.

They agreed to speak out against human rights abuses in China, a matter that had been hotly debated behind closed doors over the course of the three-day summit, CNN reported.

"I think we're in a contest with China ... in a contest with autocratic governments around the world, as to whether or not democracies can compete with them in a rapidly changing 21st century," US President Joe Biden was quoted as saying by CNN at a news conference following the summit.

"And I think how we act and whether we pull together as democracies is going to determine whether our grandkids look back 15 years from now and say, 'Did they step up? Are democracies as relevant, as powerful, as they have been?'"

This week in Cornwall, the United States and G7+ Leaders announced more than one billion safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines to accelerate global coverage.

This announcement means that since 2020, the G7+ has committed to financing and providing approximately 2.3 billion vaccines for the world, the White House said in a statement.

The United States is providing nearly half of that support and is the single largest COVID-19 vaccine donor in the world.

This 2.3 billion total includes support for expanding local production capacity around the world to add more than a billion doses to the global vaccine supply by the end of 2022.