G20 members urged to jointly fight COVID
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China calls upon countries to ‘avoid export restrictions or excessive hoarding’ of vaccines
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday that China has provided over 450 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to nearly 100 countries so far, and called on the Group of 20 to “stay true to unity, teamwork and play a leading role in the global fight against the pandemic”.
Speaking during the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting via video link, he urged capable countries to “avoid export restrictions or excessive hoarding” and make due contributions to bridging the disparities in novel coronavirus immunization.
This year’s meeting was chaired by Italy in Matera, a city in the south of the country.
The Matera Declaration adopted at the event warned that the COVID-19 pandemic “is likely to add more than 100 million people to the total number of undernourished in the…
