Japan, UK pledge new funds to CEPI's $3.5B pandemic preparedness plan, with eye toward future outbreaks
As Covid-19 nears its inevitable, slow-to-develop endgame, the nations of the world are looking to speed the pandemic’s end while preparing for what comes next. A highly-touted plan from CEPI to turbocharge pandemic R&D has earned the first of what it hopes will be significant funding to take that initiative forward.
With CEPI’s annual Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit just days away, the governments of the UK and Japan have pledged more than half a billion dollars to the international initiative as part of a five-year plan to end Covid-19 and prepare for future pandemics.
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