UK vaccine summit calls for freely available virus vaccine June 04, 2020 at 05:24PM

The United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement have urged that "a people's vaccine'' be developed for Covid-19 that would be freely available to everyone. Thursday's vaccine summit hosted by Britain raised $8.8 billion, exceeding its target, for the vaccines alliance GAVI, which says the funds will be used to vaccinate about 300 million children.