As the pandemic total approached 29 million cases, World Health Organization (WHO) officials today warned that a global effort to speed the development of new drugs, vaccines, and tests to battle COVID-19 only has a fraction of the financial support it needs.With cases surging in India, where a record 95,735 cases were reported today, the global total climbed to 27,976,756, and 905,765 people have died from their infections, according to the Johns Hopkins online dashboard.Funding gap for ACT AcceleratorIn April, the WHO and its partners announced a massive effort called the ACT Accelerator to scale up and equitably share new COVID-19 countermeasures, which got initial support from a donor pledging event hosted by the European Commission.