Summit Wraps Up With Covid, China, Climate Takeaways: G-7 Update

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It’s the last day of the Group of Seven summit hosted on the southern English coast by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, with the final communique confirming a commitment to provide 1 billion extra doses of Covid-19 vaccines for other countries. It also, as expected, backs U.S.-led calls for a fresh probe of the origins of the pandemic.

The statement presses China over human rights and urges Russia to hold to account groups carrying out ransomware attacks from its soil.