Global pandemic hopes

WHO

2 million deaths possible

First

Prevent amplifying events

Second

Protect the vulnerable

Third

Educate, empower, enable communities

To protect themselves and others

Using every tool at their disposal

Fourth

Get the basics right

Find, isolate, test and care for cases

Trace and quarantine their contacts

Also

Effective vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics will also be vital

Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator

Low- and middle-income countries

Deployment of tools to rapidly reduce the risk of severe COVID-19 disease globally

By the end of next year, ACT Accelerator aims to:

Deliver 2 billion doses of vaccine

245 million courses of treatment

500 million diagnostic tests to

Evaluating more than 50 tests

Rapid and accurate diagnostics, more news on that next week

Analysing more than 1,700 clinical trials

Secured courses of dexamethasone for up to 4.5 million patients in lower-income countries

The only medicine shown to reduce the risk of death so far

COVAX

Supporting the development of 9 vaccines

67 high-income economies have formally joined

34 are expected to sign

92 lower-income countries who are eligible for support through

Financing gap ACT Accelerator, US$35 billion

Roughly what the world spends on cigarettes every 2 weeks

Investment in the global recovery