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The World Bank has announced $12bn in support of the response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Dr Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome, said:
“This is a remarkable and unprecedented move by the World Bank – and one which will make a huge difference to the global response to this already immensely challenging epidemic.
“This support will be critical to enabling efforts globally to get ahead of the rapid spread of COVID-19. This is not simply a health crisis – it is a global crisis which is already impacting every sector of society. This commitment from the World Bank is needed if we are to have a chance of averting long-term catastrophe worldwide. It will be vital to supporting the ongoing global response, co-ordinated by the WHO, and to support health systems and societies around the world, particularly in vulnerable regions. It will also facilitate accelerated research and development of vaccines, diagnostics and treatments, ensuring equitable access to advances made. The World Bank deserves great credit for the speed and scale of its response.”
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This statement will be published on Wellcome’s website here: https://wellcome.ac.uk/press-release/wellcome-statements-novel-coronavirus-covid-19
‘Global institutions must act urgently and decisively to tackle COVID-19’ – Jeremy Farrar [published Thursday 27 February 2020]: https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/global-institutions-must-act-urgently-and-decisively-tackle-covid-19
All our previous output on this subject can be seen at this weblink:
http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/tag/covid-19
The SMC also produced a Factsheet on COVID-19 which is available here:
https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/smc-novel-coronavirus-factsheet/
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