Biden to Join G-7 Leaders in Virtual Meeting to Discuss Pandemic Response

WASHINGTON—President Biden will take part in a digital meeting of the Team of Seven industrialized nations on Friday, the White Household stated, becoming a member of a discussion board for leaders of member countries to go over designs to defeat the coronavirus pandemic as demise counts rise and the world-wide economy stays sluggish.

“President Biden will concentrate on a world-wide response to the Covid pandemic, including coordination on vaccine generation, distribution, and supplies, as very well as ongoing endeavours to mobilize and cooperate versus the danger of emerging infectious disorders by constructing state capability and establishing wellness stability financing,” the White Household stated Sunday.

Friday’s meeting will be the very first G-7 accumulating considering the fact that April 2020. It will be hosted by British Key Minister Boris Johnson. In addition to the U.S., the G-7 incorporates France, Japan, Germany, Italy, the U.K. and Canada.

The White Household stated Mr. Biden would also concentrate on the world-wide financial restoration “including the worth of all industrialized countries sustaining financial help for the restoration and collective measures to establish back again improved.…President Biden will also go over the will need to make investments to strengthen our collective competitiveness and the worth of updating world-wide principles to tackle financial difficulties these as those people posed by China.”

Mr. Biden will also increase considerations about climate modify, the White Household stated. The Feb. 19 digital meeting comes forward of a prepared G-7 summit in June.