{"id":13369,"date":"2020-06-07T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T09:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=13369"},"modified":"2020-06-07T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T08:56:56","slug":"g20-pledges-more-than-21-billion-for-coronavirus-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/weben\/g20-pledges-more-than-21-billion-for-coronavirus-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"G20 pledges more than $21 billion for coronavirus fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>G20 finance ministers and central bank governors held a virtual meeting in March amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Group of 20 rich and emerging economies has pledged more than $21 billion to fight the coronavirus, the group said early on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The G20, with invited countries, has coordinated the global efforts to support the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, G20 members and invited countries have pledged over US$21 billion to support funding in global health,&#8221; the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The pledges will be directed towards diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics, and research and development, the statement added.\u00a0In April the group called on all countries, non-governmental organizations, philanthropies and the private sector to help close a financing gap estimated at over $8 billion to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia, the current G20 chair has pledged $500 million to support global efforts to combat the pandemic. It said then it would allocate $150 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovation, $150 million to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations, and $200 million to other health organisations and programmes.<\/p>\n<p>At least 391,108 people have died globally from COVID-19 and more than 6.68 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus that causes it, following an outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, in early December.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20200606-g20-pledges-more-than-21-billion-for-coronavirus-fight\">France24<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G20 finance ministers and central bank governors held a virtual meeting in March amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Group of 20 rich and emerging economies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[3560,3561,1062],"class_list":["post-13369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weben","tag-21-billion","tag-coronavirus-fight","tag-g20","wpcat-40-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rsz_vaulogo.jpg?fit=100%2C58&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13371,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions\/13371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}