WHO, rich countries give missing funds for anti Covid plan

(ANSA) – GENEVA, 09 FEB – The World Health Organization (WHO) today urged rich countries to urgently provide the 16 billion dollars that are still missing to finance its anti Covid plan.

“Science has given us the tools” to fight the pandemic, “if shared globally in solidarity, we can end Covid-19 as a global health emergency this year,” the director general of the company said in a statement. ‘WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

“If high-income countries pay their fair share” of ACT-A funding (the accelerator for access to Covid-19 tools, ed), this program “can help low and middle-income countries overcome low rates vaccination of Covid-19, the insufficiency of tests and the shortage of drugs “, underlined the number one of the WHO, recalling that the rapid spread of the Omicron variant in the world makes the equitable distribution of tests, treatments and vaccines. (HANDLE).

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