It's not a choice between lives or livelihoods.

The quickest way to open up economies is to defeat the virus.

There is no excuse for inaction.

My message is very clear.

Act fast, act now act decisively while we continue to receive encouraging news about cove it 19 vaccines and remain cautiously optimistic about the potential for new tools to start to arrive in the coming months.

Right now, we're extremely concerned by the surge in cases we're seeing in some countries.

G 20 leaders will meet this weekend.

This is a new opportunity for them to commit financially and politically to the act accelerator and CO box so that together we can end this pandemic quickly.