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Voice of America: UN chief says $35 billion needed for WHO coronavirus program

Published Sept. 11, 2020. Updated Sept. 11 at 6:26 am

Protective masks bearing the names of medical staffers and nurses are pictured pinned to a wall on April 2, 2020 at the operative field hospital for coronavirus patients, financed by US evangelical Christian disaster relief NGO Samaritan's Purse, outside the Cremona hospital, Lombardy.

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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Thursday called for $35 billion in additional funding for the World Health Organization’s Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator program, designed to develop and equitably distribute COVID-19 vaccines and treatments worldwide.