The “Accelerated Access to New Crown Tools” was launched on April 24, 2020 by WHO, the European Commission, the French government, and the Gates Foundation. It is a collection of governments, international organizations, foundations, civil society institutions, scientists, and The joint cooperation framework of the private sector aims to assist the world in accelerating the development and provision of testing reagents, treatments and vaccines needed to fight the new crown epidemic.
The WHO stated that the US$7.7 billion donation call is not an additional funding requirement, but a part of the overall budget for the “Acquisition of New Crown Tools Acceleration Plan” in 2021, but highlights the urgent needs in the next four months.
According to the WHO, US$2.4 billion of this amount will be used to expand the scale of testing and increase the number of COVID-19 testing in all low-income and low- and middle-income countries by 10 times. Awareness of emerging virus variants of concern. #Accelerationism