Global COVID response program “running on fumes” amid budget shortfall
Reuters A global initiative to get COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines to poorer nations has only received five per cent of the donations sought to deliver on its aims this year, according to the World Health Organization and other aid groups. The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator budgeted $US23.4 billion for its efforts from […]
UN chief: time for national plans to help fund global COVID-19 vaccine effort
New York, US/Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday it is time for countries to start using money from their national COVID-19 response to help fund a global vaccine plan as the World Bank warned that “broad, rapid and affordable access” to those doses will be at the core of a resilient global […]