World leaders join WHO to launch an initiative to accelerate fight against Covid-19, but US skips online announcement ceremony
Health care workers assist a Covid-19 patient at one of the intensive care units of the Ramony Cajal hospital in Madrid, Spain, April 24, 2020.
French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen were among leaders taking part in a videoconference to announce the plan, but the United States stayed away. US President Donald Trump has lambasted the WHO as being slow to react to the outbreak and being "China-centric," and announced a suspension of funding to the UN agency.More than 2.7 million people worldwide have been infected with Covid-19 and nearly 190,000 have died since the virus emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, according to a Reuters tally.
"We need to ensure that there are enough vaccines for everyone, we are going to need global leadership to identify and prioritise vaccine candidates," he told a separate Geneva news briefing, before taking part in the formal WHO announcement.
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