THE government must use its presidency of the G7 to help speed up the supply of vaccines to Covid-stricken countries, unions are demanding, as campaigners step up calls for a “people’s vaccine.”

In today’s joint letter to Trade Secretary Liz Truss, the heads of the TUC and its European counterpart the ETUC are insisting on urgent action to help global South countries fight off a devastating new wave of coronavirus cases.

The call, backed by the International Trade Union Confederation and the Trade Union Advisory Committee, presses Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States to come to the aid of countries like India, which is recording hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 cases each day.