MOSCOW, may 5 – RIA Novosti. Australia will allocate more than $ 450 million to combat the coronavirus and the search for vaccines, said in a statement, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison published on his website.
“Today Australia allocates 352 million Australian dollars (227 million USD) global effort to combat COVID-19 and a search of the vaccine. We provide 15 million Australian dollars (9.7 million U.S. dollars) to assist in the development of vaccines against COVID-19 and diagnostics for the Coalition for innovation in the field of preparedness for the epidemic and the Foundation for innovative new diagnostics,” said Morrison.
in addition, he also stressed that Australia allocates 337 million Australian dollars (217 million U.S. dollars) to Finance scientific research on the coronavirus, dedicated to vaccines, diagnostics and therapy of respiratory diseases.
the world health organization on 11 March announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest world health organization, worldwide there were more than 3.43 million cases of infection, about 240 thousand people died.
Current data on the situation of COVID-19 in Russia and the world presented on the portal stopmanager.of the Russian Federation.
