A candlelit vigil was held in Falmouth last night to mark the 3.7million people around the world who have died from Covid-19.

The event at Pendennis Castle was organised by Crack The Crises to highlight the figure to those attending the G7 summit.

A wooden cross was placed on the ground marked with electronic tealights which spelled out 3,700,000. Those attending gave readings and added the tealights individually to the display.

Crack The Crises, which organised the event, is a coalition of 75 charities from all over the world.

Edwin Ikhuoria, 47, is the African executive director for The One Campaign, a charity that was involved with the organisation of the event.

He described the vigil as "solemn and surreal" adding:

"The main idea is that there are 3.7 million people who have lost their lives from the pandemic. They are not just a number, they are human beings.

"We want to call attention to the fact that the pandemic cannot go on for any longer as lives are going to continue to be lost.

"We want leaders of the richest countries on Earth to realise the longer this pandemic lasts, the more lives will be lost. They need to act urgently to stop it."

Kirsty McNeill, 41, a spokesperson for Crack the Crises, said:

"It was important for us to remember the people who died from coronavirus at the end of the day, particularly as members of the G7 have not shown the ambition necessary to make sure more people don't lose their lives.

"We're calling for the G7 to share patents, share the doses urgently, by the end of this summer, and we need them to share the bill.

"We've estimated it costs between 50 and 66 billion dollars to vaccinate the world, that is what they've said they want to do, so in the next 24 hours we need a global vaccine financing plan."

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