The World Health Organization called Tuesday for $50 billion in funding from wealthy nations to buy vaccine doses for developing countries, saying that “countless lives" and trillions of dollars in economic activity hang in the balance.The WHO also endorsed a second Chinese vaccine against Covid-19, CoronaVac, a shot by private pharmaceutical firm Sinovac BioTech Ltd.
for emergency use. The decision paves the way for a WHO-backed Covax vaccine pool to distribute doses. The moves are part of a renewed push by the United Nations to get more vaccines to the developing world to bring global contagion under control.They came a day after the agency ended an annual meeting with some of its other efforts—such as research into the origins of the.