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Heads of International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization issue extraordinary call for financing actions by government leaders to accelerate end to COVID-19 pandemic.
IMF, WB, WHO, WTO principals call for $50 billion investment to generate $9 trillion in global economic returns by 2025 and boost manufacturing capacity, supply, trade flows and the equitable distribution of diagnostics, oxygen, treatments, medical supplies and vaccines.
Call to action by this quadrilateral grouping comes at a perilous point in the pandemic and as the historic World Health Assembly concludes, G7 meetings commence, and follows the G20 Global Health Summit.