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Japan in talks with UK, France for $20 bn fund to jointly buy vaccine, Hong Kong to subsidise conference industry, US formally exits WHO and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Japan is in talks with the UK, France and other potential partners to set up a $20 billion fund to jointly buy coronavirus vaccine. The nations join forces to match US-China purchasing power, according to an exclusive report in Nikkei. The nations aim to establish the purchasing program as soon as this summer, with Japan expected to contribute as much as $800 million or so. Read more here 
 

Let’s look at the global statistics: 



Total Confirmed Cases: 11,829,602

Change Over Yesterday: 557,260


Total Deaths: 544,163


Total Recovered: 6,447,656

Nations hit with most cases: US (2,996,098), Brazil (1,668,589), India (742,417), Russia