UN's Guterres calls for $35 bln more for WHO COVID-19 program (Reuters)

Start Date: Thursday, September 10, 2020

Last Modified: Monday, September 14, 2020

End Date: Friday, December 31, 9999


ZURICH (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for $35 billion more, including $15 billion in the next three months, for the World Health Organization's "ACT-Accelerator" programme to support vaccines, treatments and diagnostics against COVID-19.


Some $3 billion has been contributed by countries so far, Guterres told an online event on Thursday, calling it "seed funding".


"But we now need $35 billion more to go from 'start up' to 'scale up and impact'," he said. "There is real urgency in these numbers. Without an infusion of $15 billion over the next three months, beginning immediately, we will lose the window of opportunity." 

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