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Time for countries to help fund global Covid-19 vaccine effort: UN Chief

The Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator and its COVAX facility - led by the World Health Organization and GAVI vaccine alliance - has received $3 billion, but needs another $35 billion

UN Secretary General António Guterres (above) has invited world leaders to a Climate Action Summit on September 23 in New York
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UN Secretary General António Guterres

Reuters
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 economic recovery.

The Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator and its COVAX facility - led by the World Health Organization and GAVI vaccine alliance - has received $3 billion, but needs another $35 billion. It aims to deliver 2 billion vaccine doses by the end of 2021, 245 million