The leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies should use a meeting this weekend in Rome to agree how to transfer surplus Covid-19 vaccines to low-income countries, a group of former presidents and prime ministers has said.
In a letter to Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, 100 former leaders and government ministers from around the world urged him to use the G20 summit to address what they said was an unfair distribution of vaccines.
The group said the United States, European Union, Britain and Canada would be stockpiling 240 million unused vaccines by the end of the month, which these nations' military could immediately airlift to countries in greater need.