'Jobs and growth' are the medicine the world needs, Johnson tells G7


  • World
  • Friday, 19 Feb 2021

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosts the Online G7 Summit in the Cabinet Room at Downing Street in London, Britain February 19, 2021. Geoff Pugh/Pool via REUTERS

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Group of Seven leaders on Friday that the battered world economy needed to be rebuilt after the COVID-19 pandemic with an ambitious plan to tackle climate change that would create millions of new jobs.

The COVID-19 pandemic has killed 2.4 million people, tipped the global economy into its worst peacetime slump since the Great Depression and upended normal life for billions.

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