WHO-led coalition 'urgently needs' US$31 bil to fight Covid-19

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Initiative aims to deliver 500 million tests, 245 million treatment courses to low- and middle-income countries. FMTNews WHO

The coalition aims to scale up delivery of 2 billion vaccines doses by the end of 2021.

It said US$3.4 billion had been contributed to date, leaving a funding gap of US$27.9 billion, of which US$13.7 billion was “urgently needed”. It also aims to scale up delivery of 2 billion vaccines doses, including 1 billion to be bought by low- and middle-income countries, by the end of 2021. In an update on the ACT-Accelerator initiative, launched in April to speed up research and development for the new disease, the WHO and global health groups said the coronavirus pandemic is still threatening millions of lives and scores of economies.

 

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