코로나19 백신 향해 세계 뭉쳤다…30여개국 10조원 지원약속<br /><br /> World leaders and international organizations have pledged almost 8 billion dollars to fund the development of a coronavirus vaccine.<br />The EU organized a video conference to raise the funds and got commitments from 30 countries around the world.<br />Our Eum Ji-young has more. <br /> World leaders and organizations have promised to stump up more than 8 billion U.S. dollars to develop a vaccine and treatments for COVID-19.<br />The pledges were made Monday by 30 different countries... in a video conference hosted by the European Union.<br />It was organized by the European Union and other countries including Britain, Norway and Saudi Arabia, Canada and Japan.<br />The United States did not choose to contribute, saying it's already pouring billions of dollars into its own research.<br />UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he is glad to be taking part in the project along with the World Health Organization.<br /><br />"These new tools can help us to fully control the pandemic and must be treated as global public goods available and affordable for all. This is the only path to a world free of COVID-19. But this will require the most massive public health effort in history."<br /><br />The Director General of the WHO, Dr. Tedros, welcomed the funds but said the results should be equally distributed.<br /><br />"The ultimate measure of success will not be how fast we can develop tools. It will be how equally we can distribute them. None of us can accept a world in which some people are protected while others remain exposed."<br /><br /> He also said that this is an opportunity not only to defeat a common enemy but to forge a common future.<br />Eum Ji-young Arirang News. <br />
