Health ministers from G7 nations met on Thursday and concluded that the Omicron variant was the 'biggest current threat to global public health' after Columbia University researchers found the variant was noticeably resistant to vaccines and even a third booster might not fully protect against it, as President Joe Biden warned of a 'winter of severe illness and death' for those who were refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
Britain's health secretary, Sajid Javid, chaired the meeting of his G7 counterparts - a discussion between the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan as well as the U.K.-- More...