New financial instruments could fill $28 bln COVID funding gap: WHO
15/12/2020 10:41
GENEVA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - A senior World Health
Organization official said on Tuesday that the body was looking
at new financial instruments to help fill a $28 billion finance
gap for COVID tools, saying financing was proving a "real
challenge".
"Its a real challenge in today's fiscal environment despite
the fact that this is the best deal in town," WHO senior adviser
Bruce Aylward told Geneva-based journalists. "This will pay
itself off in 36 hours once we get trade and travel moving
again."
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge)
((emma.farge@thomsonreuters.com;))