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World leaders -- except U.S. and China -- commit to collaborate on defeating COVID-19

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April 24, 2020 10:11 PM UTC
Updated on May 12, 2020 at 12:29 AM UTC

Leaders of national governments, international organizations, philanthropies and biopharmaceutical trade associations Friday pledged their support and commitment to the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator.

The U.S. and China are among the few countries that have not backed the initiative, which hopes to raise €7.5 billion ($8.2 billion) via a May 4 pledging conference. ...