(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 18 JAN - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the British Wellcome Trust donate 300 million dollars to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
The checks of $ 150 million each went to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation, which helped create the Covax program for delivering vaccines to low-income countries.
In announcing the donation, Bill Gates warned of possible pandemics worse than the coronavirus and called on governments to contribute billions of dollars to prepare for an upcoming epidemic.
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