The World Health Organisation (WHO) is seeking $11.5 billion in urgent funding to fight the more infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus. A large portion of the cash being requested from the WHO's partners is needed to buy tests, oxygen and face masks in poorer nations. The paper, still subject to changes, outlines the results and financial needs of the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), the programme co-led by the WHO to distribute fairly Covid-19 vaccines, drugs and tests across the world. "These options to buy need to be exercised in the coming months or vaccine doses will be lost," the document warns. Oxygen is needed to "control the exponential death surges caused by the Delta variant," the document says.

Source: News 24 August 04, 2021 09:33 UTC