MOSCOW, 24 APR – RIA Novosti. The power of the presidency of the G20, Saudi Arabia has called on all countries, international organizations and private companies to collect $ 8 billion for the global fight against coronavirus, until the Fund is filled less than a quarter.
the time Required for combating the pandemic was identified by the monitoring Board of the global emergency preparedness in the health sector.
Previously, Saudi Arabia stated that allocates 500 million dollars within the initiative. As reported on the morning of 24 April, to date, efforts of different countries and organizations had collected $ 1.9 billion. “We highly appreciate the existing attempts to Fund and emphasize the urgent need to eliminate the deficit,” – said in a communique.
Saudi Arabia in recent weeks has held a number of Ministerial meetings in different areas to discuss coordinated measures to counter the negative impact of the spread of the coronavirus in different areas of human life.
the world health organization on 11 March announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest who data, there have been recorded more than 2.5 million cases of infection, over 175 thousand people died.
Current data on the situation of COVID-19 in Russia and the world presented on the portal stopmanager.of the Russian Federation.
