G7 leaders agree create UK fight future epidemics centre as the G7 leaders have come together to work together to better manage future global crises, with a range of measures being taken to tackle these problems sooner, within a maximum of 100 days.

The coronavirus has highlighted the fragility of the world in the face of a global pandemic, and for this reason it has been agreed to create a centre in the United Kingdom with the aim of preventing a similar crisis. This will be responsible for investigating to prevent a disease from crossing again from an animal species into the human race.

These world leaders will launch the Carbis Bay declaration on Saturday, pledging to take action to prevent a repeat of this crisis. The countries that make up the G7, which are the ones that will issue this statement are the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan

G7 leaders agree create UK fight future epidemics centre

This declaration will incorporate recommendations, including that the first 100 days since the identification of an epidemic threat are key to reversing it and preventing it from becoming a pandemic.

This is a first step in trying to make this situation happen again in the future, and will strengthen global surveillance networks, as well as reduce the time needed to develop and license vaccines for any type of animal disease.

G7 leaders agree create UK fight future epidemics centre

"Over the past year the world has developed several effective coronavirus vaccines, certified, shipped, and now they are being applied to people in need. But to really beat your coronavirus and to be able to prevent us from a pandemic as it is, we have to learn lessons from the last 18 months and do things differently if all this happens again," said Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

It is expected that this centre will be able to stop new animal-borne diseases before they put people at risk, and this centre will have funding of just over 10 million euros from the British government, and around 16 million euros from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Now all we have to do is get everything going.

G7 leaders agree create UK fight future epidemics centre

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Mercadona will invest 300 million euros in the creation of its largest logistics block that will begin its activity in November

Mercadona will open its largest logistics block in November. The facility, which will be located in Parc Sagunt and will involve a total investment of around 300 million euros, will start its activity for perishable goods, according to the Merchant.

The supermarket chain has specified that, at the beginning of October, it is expected to begin preparations prior to the first service to stores, which will be held the following month.In this sense, the new logistics block will serve stores in the provinces of Valencia (center and north area), Castellón and Teruel.

” The increase in production will be gradual and will extend until September 2022, for refrigerated and perishable product, " Mercadona said. Likewise, as regards frozen and dry products, their opening will be implemented in a second phase, approximately in 2024 and 2026, respectively.

The structure itself, which sits on a plot of 358,270 square meters, will contain a building with offices, changing rooms and staff units of 7,000 square meters, with a parking for 600 covered spaces.

In addition, a 74,000 square meter cold store has been built, where in November 30,000 square meters will be put into service for conventional perishables, waiting to start in May 2022 the rest of the warehouse where a refrigerated chamber and an automated perishables chamber will be activated.

The Valencian company has stressed that the level " automation of this project is above 75%". This, they detail, reduces the efforts of the worker with a higher quality position by automatically preparing the products with more weight.

Regarding the technologies used, these will go, in general lines, from radio frequency to picking robots through the use of autonomous depalletizers for the preparation of orders automatically.

The company plans to assume from these facilities an average daily service volume of 7,500 pallets, equivalent to 230 trucks in and out, and will be able to reach peak days of 10,000 pallets.