The Group of Seven fell short on fulfilling a pledge to donate 1 billion additional vaccine doses to developing nations, Bloomberg reported, revealing gaps in the bloc between vaccine haves and have-nots.

The world leaders made the 1-billion-shot pledge Sunday and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the G-7 collectively would distribute 2.3 billion vaccine doses to developing countries by next year. But Merkel's larger figure includes a much wider array of contributions already offered, as well as future exports, according to a European official.

The countries also called for "a timely, transparent, expert-led, and science-based WHO-convened" study into the origins of COVID-19 that would include investigating in China.

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