UN health agency hails 7.4 billion Euro pledge for COVID-19 treatments
UN health agency hails 7.4 billion Euro pledge for COVID-19 treatments
Author: UN News Centre
World leaders on Monday pledged 7.4 billion Euros to support research and development for medicines to fight COVID-19 which the top UN health official has hailed as “a powerful and inspiring demonstration of global solidarity”.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was updating journalists about the outcome of the funding conference for the recently launched ACT Accelerator to speed up production of treatments to beat the disease.
“Today, countries came together not only to pledge their financial support, but also to pledge their commitment to ensuring all people can access life-saving tools for COVID-19; accelerating development of products, but at the same time, access for all”, he said, speaking from Geneva.
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