According to a Reuters report, a pledging summit on Saturday raised 6.15 billion euros ($6.9 billion) to tackle COVID-19.
What is it?
The event was part of a joint initiative by the European Commission and the advocacy group Global Citizen and included a star-studded globally televised and streamed concert.
Who Pledged What?
- Belgium – 11.5 million euros to the World Food Programme, 4 million euros to the WHO’s COVID-19 solidarity response fund
- Canada – C$120 million for the ACT Accelerator, C$180 million for COVID-19 humanitarian and development aid
- Denmark – DKK16 million to the United Nations Population Fund
- Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) – US$25 million towards West Africa’s COVID-19 relief and development
- European Commission jointly with European Investment Bank – 4.9 billion euros to help countries recover from the pandemic
- Germany – 383 million euros to support the Global Fund’s response mechanism and Global Citizen’s crisis network
- Luxembourg – 800,000 euros to the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
- Netherlands – 25 million euros for procurement of a vaccine for countries needing it the most
- Norway – $10 million to vaccine alliance GAVI
- Qatar – US$10 million to the WHO
- Serbia – 100,000 euros to vaccine alliance CEPI for vaccine research
- Spain – 10 million euros to the Coronavirus Global Response initiative
- Sweden – 46 million euros to the WHO Solidarity Response Fund
- Switzerland – 20 million euros to ensure equal access to a vaccine and testing
- United States – $545 million for COVID-19 relief
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Source: Reuters
