Continuing The Global Fight
China will continue international cooperation in the global battle against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), provide foreign assistance and make its domestically developed vaccine a global public good when available. President Xi Jinping made the announcement at the opening of the 73rd Session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) via video link on May 18.
“China will provide $2 billion over two years to help with COVID-19 response, and with economic and social development in affected countries, especially developing countries,” Xi said at the meeting of the governing body of the World Health Organization (WHO).
As the most serious global public health emergency since the end of World War II, COVID-19 had hit over 210 countries and regions, infected more than 5 million people and claimed over 330,000 lives as of May 21.
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