Salud

OMS pide $675 millones para la lucha contra el nuevo coronavirus

Autoridades explicaron que el plan es para combatir la enfermedad durante tres meses; $60 millones serán destinados a financiar las operaciones de este organismo de salud y el resto será para los países que se encuentran particularmente amenazados.

People wearing protective facemasks walk pass a government health advisory campaign on the coronavirus infection prevention at a city commuter train station in Bangkok, on February 1, 2020. - A Thai taxi driver has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, health officials said January 31, 2020 in the kingdom's first case of human-to-human transmission of the deadly SARS-like virus. Thailand now has detected 19 cases of the virus, the most declared outside of China. (Photo by Romeo GACAD / AFP)
People wearing protective facemasks walk pass a government health advisory campaign on the coronavirus infection prevention at a city commuter train station in Bangkok, on February 1, 2020. - A Thai taxi driver has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, health officials said January 31, 2020 in the kingdom's first case of human-to-human transmission of the deadly SARS-like virus. Thailand now has detected 19 cases of the virus, the most declared outside of China. (Photo by Romeo GACAD / AFP) ROMEO GACAD
La OMS está en fase de enviar hacia 24 países 500.000 máscaras y 40.000 aparatos respiradores desde sus almacenes en Dubái y Acra. AFP (ROMEO GACAD/AFP)

Ginebra. La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) lanzó este miércoles un llamado para recolectar $675 millones destinados a combatir durante tres meses la epidemia del nuevo coronavirus que ya ha provocado la muerte de casi 500 personas.

“Estamos solicitando $675 millones para financiar nuestro plan para los próximos tres meses”, declaró el director general de la OMS, Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus.

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