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Coronavirus: EU joins global vaccine race

2020-05-04T21:14:40.239Z


A three-hour “telethon” raised 7.4 billion euros in contributions.


Will the coronavirus vaccine race turn into a fight between the great world powers? It is to avoid this catastrophic scenario, of which the war of the masks gave a taste, that the European leaders organized Monday afternoon a conference of donors, announced at the end of April during a meeting of the WHO and supported by the G20. The objective was to collect 7.5 billion euros from partners (States, international organizations, private foundations, artists, etc.) in order to support research around the vaccine but also treatments and diagnostics and then their most widespread dissemination. wide possible. As Emmanuel Macron reminded us, the idea is to make this vaccine "a global public good" which"Will not belong to anyone but we will belong to all" .

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"Those who invent it obviously will have their fair remuneration but access will be given to the whole planet by the organization we have chosen, the right funding, the right

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Source: lefigaro

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