UN Forum: Developing countries desperately need Covid-19 financing


With vaccine apartheid and developing countries’ constraints, uneven pandemic containment and recovery have been worsening prior inequalities, further setting back poor countries and people. - Bloomverg

SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR (IPS): Failure to sufficiently accelerate comprehensive efforts to contain the Covid-19 contagion has greatly worsened the catastrophe in developing countries.

Grossly inadequate financing of relief, recovery and reform efforts has also further set back progress, including sustainable development.

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