LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will call for a global plan to prevent pandemics and pledge more funds to the World Health Organisation in a speech to the UN General Assembly on Saturday .
"Unless we unite and turn our fire against our common foe, we know that everyone will lose," Mr Johnson will say in the speech, which has been recorded and will be played to the assembly on Saturday. The coronavirus crisis is the worst pandemic in a century and has officially claimed almost a million lives, though the real toll may be almost double that.
The UK will commit £340 million over the next four years to the WHO, a 30 per cent increase on the previous four-year period, his office said. It will also contribute an initial £71 million to secure purchase rights for as many as 27 million Covid vaccine doses for the UK population.
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