Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany and other wealthy countries may need to give some of their own stock of vaccines to developing countries in addition to money, since only vaccinating the whole world will end the coronavirus pandemic.

Speaking after a video conference of leaders of the G7 group of large developed economies, Merkel said they had not discussed specific percentages of their vaccine stocks that should be given to poorer countries.

“I stressed in my intervention that the pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated," she told journalists.

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