US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has expressed deep American concern about the threat of coronavirus mutations to the global economic recovery.
According to Reuters, the minister said during a press conference: We are very concerned about the delta mutant and other mutant that may emerge and threaten recovery. We are in an interconnected global economy, so what happens in any part of the world affects other countries.
and yesterday, Saturday; The finance ministers of the Group of Twenty warned of a series of risks that are weighing on the revival of the global economy due to the outbreak of new mutations from Covid-19 and varying rates of vaccination operations.
In a statement, the finance ministers reiterated their intention to continue supporting the recovery by avoiding premature abandonment of measures to support the economy.
The G20 gathering in the Italian capital, Venice, was the first face-to-face meeting since the pandemic began.
Decisions were made at this meeting, including the ratification of new rules aimed at stopping the transfer of profits from multinational corporations to tax havens.
This opens the way for G20 leaders to pass a global minimum corporate tax of no more than 15% at the Rome summit in October.
This would raise hundreds of billions of dollars for public finances that are under strain due to the COVID-19 crisis.
While some rich countries have vaccinated two-thirds of their citizens with at least one dose, only 5% of the population has been vaccinated in many African countries.
Italy said that the G-20 will again raise the issue of financing vaccinations in poor countries before the Rome summit next October, and that new mutations are one of the issues that must be addressed.< /p>
We must agree on a process that will make vaccinations available to everyone on the planet,' said the Jubli USA Network. If we do not agree on this, the International Monetary Fund predicts that the global economy will lose $9 trillion.
