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Canada adds $485M in global effort to bring coronavirus aid to poor countries
Karina Gould’s announcement of $485 million in new money toward the global effort to provide COVID-19 medicines to poor countries.The new funds are going towards the Access to COVID-19 Tools, or “ACT” Accelerator, which was created in April by the World Health Organization, the French government, the European Commission and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.Gould and Procurement Minister Anita Anand also left open the possibility Monday that if Canada has any surpluses of vaccines it has already pre-bought, they could be shared with poorer countries.Gould said that with only one vaccine currently approved by Health Canada, it’s too early to make that determination.