The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated an additional $250 million to strengthen efforts in the global fight to end the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19.
It was gathered that the latest donation brings the foundation’s total funding to the COVID-19 response to $1.75 billion.
During a phone interview, Melinda Gates said the new funding will focus on two main areas which are continued R&D for new COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines.
Bill Gates Donates Additional $250m
The second focus is the improvements to the delivery methods of those innovations to ensure that they are distributed safely, equitably and as inexpensively as possible.
According to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the pandemic has surged to 69 million global cases with over 1.5 million deaths, including 15 million U.S. cases with nearly 290,000 deaths.
Meanwhile, China and Russia have approved vaccines, while the United Kingdom, UK has begun inoculations of the vaccine this week.
