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• G7 leaders to sign Carbis Bay Declaration to prevent pandemic in 100 days. As the first 100 days after the identification of an epidemic threat are “crucial to changing its course and, ideally, preventing it from becoming a pandemic.”

About the Carbis Bay Declaration:

• Under the Carbis Bay Declaration, the UK, which holds the presidency for the G7 Leaders’ Summit 2021, will establish a new centre to develop vaccines.
• The ‘Carbis Bay Declaration’, is a landmark global health declaration aimed at preventing future pandemics.
• The G7 leaders are commited to using all their resources to prevent a pandemic from ever happening again.

G7 nations

• It comprise the US, UK, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan.
• The UK holds the presidency for G7 Leaders’ Summit 2021 and has invited India, along with Australia, South Korea and South Africa, as guest countries.

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