We are pleased to announce that the United States, as the first COVID Summit Chair, Belize, as CARICOM Chair, Germany, as the G7 Presidency, Indonesia, as the G20 Presidency, and Senegal, as the African Union Chair, will co-host the second Global COVID-19 Summit, which will be held virtually on May 12, 2022. Our combined efforts to terminate the acute phase of the COVID-19 epidemic and prepare for future health risks will be redoubled at the Summit as reported by The White House.
COVID Summit
This Summit comes after the United States hosted the inaugural Global COVID-19 Summit on September 22, 2021. We are calling on world leaders, civil society, non-governmental organisations, philanthropists, and the private sector to make fresh pledges and provide solutions to vaccinate the world, save lives today, and build improved health security – for everyone, everywhere — ahead of the May 12 Summit.
New variants
The emergence and spread of new variants, like Omicron, have reinforced the need for a strategy aimed at controlling COVID-19 worldwide.
Together, we can mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and protect those at the highest risk with vaccinations, testing, and treatments, actions to minimize disruption to routine health services, and through support for the ACT-Accelerator multilateral mechanism.
We know we must prepare now to build, sustain, and finance the global capacity we need, not only for emerging COVID-19 variants but also for future health crises.
To help achieve these goals, we urge all countries and stakeholders to pledge to take urgent actions to create the systems we need to end the acute phase of COVID-19, save lives, and build better health security and health systems.
Challenges
The Summit will build on the themes and commitments made at the first Summit and will place an emphasis on supporting locally-led solutions to both immediate and long-term challenges, including:
- Getting shots into arms;
- Deploying tests and treatments, especially for the highest-risk populations;
- Expanding and protecting the health workforce and minimizing disruptions to routine and essential health services;
- Enhancing access to medical countermeasures, including research and development and scaling and diversifying local and regional manufacturing; and
- Generating sustainable financing for pandemic preparedness, health security, and health systems
We look forward to another successful Summit to continue the international effort in the fight against COVID-19 and to advance global pandemic preparedness.
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Source: The White House
