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Yet another very upbeat weekend on twitter and here. Would be great to see if the weeks trading can match it.
And the link:
https://www.g7uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Carbis-Bay-G7-Summit-Communique-PDF-430KB-25-pages-3.pdf
CARBIS BAY G7 SUMMIT COMMUNIQUÉ
Page 5:
"13. To get and stay ahead of the virus, we commit to continue our investment in cutting edge research and innovation, seeking to ensure that global vaccines remain effective against variants of concern, and that effective tests and treatments are available. To this end, we will boost global surveillance and genomic sequencing and swift information sharing needed to enable the rapid detection to combat the virus and its emerging variants. G7 countries should extend every effort to achieve, wherever possible, a level of genomic sequencing of at least 10 per cent of all new positive COVID-19 samples during the pandemic phase and share genomic sequencing information with existing global databases."
Page 7:
"17. The G7 has a leading role to play in deploying our collective scientific capabilities as part of an enhanced global health response. Data can play a transformative role in supporting effective early warning and rapid response to health crises. We therefore need to improve the quality and coverage of international, regional and national pathogen surveillance to enable us to gather, share and analyse data to identify new variants in our fight against the current pandemic, and to detect and monitor future pathogens with pandemic potential. We support the establishment of the international pathogen surveillance network - a global pandemic radar - and welcome the WHO’s commitment to work with experts and countries to help achieve this, based on a common framework, including standards and rules for sharing data, that builds on existing detection systems such as the influenza and polio programmes but with greater capacity for genomic sequencing and broader in coverage. We note the report to the Presidency on pathogen surveillance by Sir Jeremy Farrar. To this end we welcome the WHO’s Global Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, as well as additional centres as part of this network. This will also need to be supported by capability building at the regional level, thereby increasing global sequencing and pathogen surveillance capacities across the world. We ask that the WHO reports back to Leaders on the progress of the network by the end of this year as part of the G20 process."
Page 8:
"23. We recognise the importance to the global economy of safely restarting international travel, by land, air and sea, and multilateral efforts to achieve this, including new public health guidance on international travel by the WHO, International Civil Aviation Organisation and International Maritime Organisation. We recognise that this will need a set of common standards for travel including interoperability and mutual recognition of digital applications, testing requirements, recognition of vaccination status including exemptions and comparable criteria for when responsive measures may be required."
Sunday morning read for anybody interested:
1OO DAYS MISSION to respond to future pandemic threats
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/100-days-mission-to-respond-to-future-pandemic-threats
Point 52 (page 35):
"Governments normalising the use of accurate diagnostics for coronavirus and influenza in point of care and non-clinical settings. Governments could drive these changes, working with FIND and other relevant organisations, by signalling that coronavirus and influenza tests will be prioritised for demonstrably cost effective clinical and public health use cases. It is also important that increased use of diagnostics goes hand-in-hand with appropriate non-pharmaceutical interventions (such as self-isolation) or treatments. A market for point of care diagnostics for these and other common infectious diseases would stimulate the diagnostics industry. FIND would play a key role in providing LMIC market information to diagnostics manufacturers to enable policy makers to make informed procurement decisions relative to demand. This activity would dovetail with strengthened global surveillance of infectious diseases as set out in the Pathogen Surveillance Report."
Point 93 (page 54):
"Speed can also be enabled by a more systematic approach to how data and samples are captured, shared and analysed. Real-time data collection, distribution and use is critical in a pandemic (as well as between pandemics as part of embedding best practice), but requires robust infrastructure and operational systems, supported by appropriate governance models. 81 We should continue to embrace the opportunities digital transformation provides to better detect, prevent and respond to epidemics and pandemics.82 The application of cloud-based data sharing platforms can support speedy and flexible recruitment of clinical trial sites in response to shifting pandemic waves and enable more efficient patient recruitment for preventive and therapeutic trials and diagnostic use cases. The use of these types of platforms would also support prompt review of the results of completed trials by regulators and policy-makers. We can embed new digital technology and data management in diagnostics by linking serial numbers to a digital system which would be transformational for quality assurance and deployment, allowing manufacturers to recall faulty kits by preventing those kits from providing a test result.83 Greater collaboration on data standards and platforms could also increase the utility of testing data so that results can be linked to surveillance systems, clinical care and public health responses for control, tracing and isolation"
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/992762/100_Days_Mission_to_respond_to_future_pandemic_threats__3_.pdf
Matt, Secretary of State for Health & Social Care and MP for West Suffolk
"We must do all we can to prevent another global pandemic.
Today’s historic G7 Carbis Bay Declaration will help deliver that goal.
Early warning is vital to preventing another pathogen becoming a pandemic."
https://twitter.com/MattHan****/status/1403680539102547968
Vital...
Not G7, but mention of money justifies adding to the thread:
"Covid-19 has been devastating, but a future pandemic could be far worse"
"The spectre of another global crisis, along with the potential emergence of a deadlier foe, is pushing disease trackers to begin preparations now, even as Covid-19 continues to rage in some regions"
"It’s part of a broader campaign that includes an initiative announced last month by the World Health Organization and Germany. As part of the programme, a new global centre in Berlin will rely on data, artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies to try to predict and prevent major outbreaks. In addition, an independent panel set up by the WHO has proposed an International Pandemic Financing Facility to secure as much as $10bn a year to fund preparedness measures after determining that failures, gaps, and delays allowed the coronavirus to run rampant. So far 3.75-million people have been killed."
https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/2021-06-12-covid-19-has-been-devastating-but-a-future-pandemic-could-be-far-worse/
"U.S. President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders hope the plan, known as the Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative, will provide a transparent infrastructure partnership to help narrow the $40 trillion needed by developing nations by 2035, the White House said."
"The G7 and its allies will use the initiative to mobilise private sector capital in areas such as climate, health and health security, digital technology, and gender equity and equality, the White House said."
https://www.reuters.com/world/g7-counter-chinas-belt-road-with-infrastructure-project-senior-us-official-2021-06-12/
"In addition to the billions of dollars which the United States mobilizes in overseas infrastructure financing through existing bilateral and multilateral tools, we will work with Congress to augment our development finance toolkit with the hope that, together with the private sector, other U.S. stakeholders, and G7 partners, B3W will collectively catalyze hundreds of billions of dollars of infrastructure investment for low- and middle-income countries in the coming years."
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/12/fact-sheet-president-biden-and-g7-leaders-launch-build-back-better-world-b3w-partnership/
@DominicRaab
"We need to take action now to ensure the devastation wrought by Covid-19 is never repeated.
The @G7 Carbis Bay Declaration is a major step towards achieving that. It will help cut vaccine development times & lead to better surveillance of diseases #G7UK"
9:13 am · 12 Jun 2021
https://twitter.com/DominicRaab/status/1403626412276432902
"Today the Pandemic Preparedness Partnership will publish an independent report, the ‘100 Days Mission to Respond to Future Pandemic Threats’, which contains actionable recommendations on how governments and others can quickly respond to any future outbreaks. 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.
The Carbis Bay declaration will incorporate the recommendations of this report and set out the other steps G7 countries will take to prevent a future pandemic. These include slashing the time taken to develop and licence vaccines, treatments and diagnostics for any future disease to under 100 days, a commitment to reinforce global surveillance networks and genomic sequencing capacity and support for reforming and strengthening the World Health Organization"
"Dr Tedros Adhanom, Director General of the World Health Organization said:
We welcome the Carbis Bay Health Declaration, particularly as the world begins to recover and rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic. Together we need to build on the significant scientific and collaborative response to the COVID-19 pandemic and find common solutions to address many of the gaps identified.
To this end WHO welcomes and will take forward the UK’s proposal for a Global Pandemic Radar. As we discussed, the world needs a stronger global surveillance system to detect new epidemic and pandemic risks."
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/g7-leaders-to-agree-landmark-global-health-declaration-12-june-2021