Trump says US ‘rounding the corner’ on coronavirus; France records nearly 10,000 daily cases; UN calls for ‘quantum leap’ in vaccine funding. Follow latest update
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Public trust in vaccine safety is slowly growing in Europe even as it dips in parts of Asia and Africa, AFP reports, with researchers calling for more investment in health information campaigns for the forthcoming Covid-19 vaccine.
The largest ever global survey of vaccine confidence, published in the Lancet medical journal, shows clear links between political instability and misinformation and the levels of trust in the safety of medicines.
The UN has called for an immediate “quantum leap” in funding to fight the new coronavirus as the death toll crossed 900,000 six months after the pandemic broke out.
The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, urged countries to find $15bn over the next three months to fund the ACT-Accelerator programme, a global collaboration to hunt for a vaccine and treatments led by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO).
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