Vaccine Oxford, AstraZeneca: we can still do it by the end of the year
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September 10, 2020 United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has launched an appeal to raise $ 35 billion for the Act Accelerator, the World Health Organization-led initiative that aims to accelerate research and development of tests, coronavirus treatments and vaccines.
"Without a US $ 15 billion injection over the next three months, starting now, we will lose the window of opportunity" to advance research, increase production and begin providing new tests and drugs for Covid-19, Guterres said. .
Guterres called for a "quantum leap" in funding to increase the chances of a global solution that could restore normality to the world.
So far, the program has raised less than $ 3 billion.
WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that the numerous agreements concluded by countries with pharmaceutical companies to secure their doses of the coronavirus vaccine "could compromise equal access and halt progress in ending the Covid pandemic. -19 ".