today, on behalf of the irish people, i'm announcing a new pledge of 18 million euros to gavi, gavi,ehalf of the irish people, i'm announcing a new pledge of 18 million euros to gavi, gavi, the vaccine alliance. today, on behalf of the irish people, i'm announcing a new pledge of 18 million euros to gavi, gavi, the vaccine alliance. as well as international organisations and philanthropic groups. i just got the message that madonna has announced a contribution of $1 million to the coronavirus global response, and that shows that the global response must also include social society, civil society and the global community of citizens. today, on behalf of the irish people, i'm announcing a new pledge of 18 million euros to gavi, gavi, there was one notable absence from the conference — the united states, which says it's going alone in its development of a vaccine. russia didn't take part either. china did, pledging $50 million. the event had a political message too, a show of solidarity and support for the world health organization, which has come under criticism from president trump, w

she's been a managing director at the world bank, and is now chair of gavi, that's the global allianceimmunisation. she is also a special covid—19 envoy for africa, charged with mobilising international economical support for the continent. we are also joined by doctor tshidi moeti. she is a medical doctor from botswana, where she worked extensively in public health, including in programmes to tackle tuberculosis and hiv infections. five years ago, she became the first woman to be elected as the regional director for africa in the world health organization, the who. welcome to you both, ladies, and also to our audience. i'm going to give you a round of applause. you can't hear it maybe, but anyway, there we go. remember you, too, can join the conversation — it's #bbcglobalquestions. let's go to our first question. benedict, from the democratic republic of congo butjoins us from coventry in england. benedict, what's your question, please? my question to the panel is just wanting to know, is it true that the covid—19 cannot spread in hot temperature countries? we had so many questions on

she's been a managing director world bank, and is now chair of gavi, that's the global alliance for vaccinescial covid—i9 envoy for africa, charged with mobilising international economical support for the point today. we are also joined by doctor tshidi moeti. she is a medical doctor from botswana, where she worked extensively in public health, including in programmes to tackle tuberculosis and hiv infections. five years ago, she became the first woman to be elected as the regional director for africa in the world health organization, the who. welcome to you both, ladies, and also to our audience. i'm going to give you a round of applause. you can't hear it maybe, but anyway, there we go. remember you, too, can join the conversation — it's #bbcglobalquestions. let's go to our first question. benedict, from the democratic republic of congo butjoins us from coventry in england. benedict, what's your question, please? my question to the panel is just wanting to know, is it true that the covid—i9 cannot spread in hot temperature countries? we had so many questions on social media asking about th

today, on behalf of the irish people, i'm announcing a new pledge of 18 million euros to gavi, gavi,cine alliance. as well as international organisations and philanthropic groups. i just got the message that madonna has announced a contribution of $1 million to the coronavirus global response, and that shows that the global response must also include social society, civil society and the global community of citizens. there was one notable absence from the conference — the united states, which says it's going alone in its development of a vaccine. russia didn't take part either. china did, pledging $50 million. there was a political message too, a show of solidarity and support for the world health organization, which has come under criticism from president trump, who withdrew us funding for the un body. norway supports the leadership of the world health organization. without the world health 0rganization, an effective and co—ordinated response to the pandemic would not be possible. in spite of money raised, exper consensus is that a vaccine may still not be available until the middle

having profit in the equation at all the public private partnership that i have worked in which is gavi the vaccine alliance has had a very good track record it's regarded as one of the best partnerships one of the best multilateral as in the world and this consistently rated very high there's transparency in what it does so there's no bureaucracy it has very no administrative costs 3 percent and he does his job accept partner for the world's children so that's the kind of public private partnership that our use and that's what we're in right now just turning to africa now you spent 25 years. in top levels of the world bank why do you think it is obviously every death is a tragedy that the entire continent of africa has so far only have a death rate of $3000.00 we have arguably 60000 killed by coronavirus here in britain is that some kind of vindication for the health care policies of the world bank when you were outed i don't think this has to do with the world bank with all due respect a step to say that the world bank has acted to meet emergency resources available to developing coun

of the vaccine alliance gavi at least as a public private partnership that needs immunization campaigns in poor countries and we asked him what tells us lie ahead to before a vaccine against the corona virus can be developed. well the most important thing 1st of all is to have that mindset that says this is a global problem the tick lobel solution and why is that important if you are thinking about it if there are a large reservoir as a virus anywhere in the world the world is not safe not just those countries that have the virus but the world so if we can get a sense that says we have to stop this pandemic everywhere in the world because we saw what happened it started with a few cases and in outside of who hahn and it spread to $180.00 countries over a few months so what we need to make sure that we have this vaccine available for everybody in the world is the good news is science is moving quickly there are 102 approaches on the w.h.o. website already we have 8 products in humans but we're going to need to understand are those products showing promise are we seeing results is it goin

of the vaccine alliance gavi ga v.i.i. that's a public private partnership that leads immunization campaigns in poor countries around the world dr burkley it's good to have you on this so let's let's talk about the money here for a moment we got pledges today about 7400000000 euros for research to help find a vaccine is that enough. well 1st of all that 7400000000 was for a vaccines treatment and diagnostics of that around 4000000000 was earmarked for vaccines and that really is to both fund research today for about 2000000000 but also to begin to prepare for scaling up the manufacturing as well as thinking about being able to have instruments to be able to purchase vaccines for those living in the poorest countries of course depending upon the vaccine technology so that one dose 2 doses how is it made what's it going to cost we don't know that yet what about the no shows today china and the united states i'm not for to suppose that he is that going to impact the development of a vaccine well for a science you want this is

today, on behalf of the irish people, i'm announcing a new pledge of 18 million euros to gavi, gavi, and the leaders were joined by international organisations as well as philanthropic groups. i just got the message that madonna has announced a contribution of $1 million to the coronavirus global response, and that shows that the global response must also include social society, civil society and the global community of citizens. there were two notable absence from the conference — the united states, which says it's going alone in its development of a vaccine. russia didn't take part either. china did, pledging $50 million. the event had a political message too, a show of solidarity and support for the world health organization, which has come under criticism from president trump, who withdrew us funding for the un body. norway supports the leadership of the world health organization. without the world health organization, an effective and co—ordinated response to the pandemic would not be possible. in spite of money raised, expert consensus is that a vaccine may still not be availab

. >> we have masks, they just gavi us som they call a mask. the staff are not required to wear masks at this time.tr we keeng to reason with them. we need the staff to wear it, because they're the only ones who can bring it in here. we don't for our cells.emicals if y can afford ajax, the only thing you can clean your cell with is ajax. my maiconcern is the ventilation system, because they don't have no air blowing out. if i cough in my cell, and if there's germs in it, it can go to the next cell or whatever, we're all hooked up togeer. if one person gets it we all got it. >> alcindor: cammie maturin runs a nonprofit that works with incarcerated people in louisiana inuding her fiancee, sirvoris sutton, who is serving a life sentence for second-degree rerder. >> he has been tor, this is his 29th year. i believe that he had called the coronavirus back in march bes,use he had all the sympt he had t sinus, the cough, the congestion, he had fever, he had he couldn't smell, couldn't >> alcindor: she worries prisons authorities are resigned to covid

groups like gavi, which are phenomenal — what they can do is help support supply, lower cost and delivere bit of a hint of about that with sanofi. 0thers try to get companies within theirjurisdictions — america, europe, china — that might have first dibs at these kinds of things. you know, what we've learned from this pandemic — and we've seen such wonderful things happen from it, but we've also seen the worst. we've seen, you know, people going to scrums and laying one another, accost competition for personal protective equipment, for testing, for ventilators, for life—saving resources. we have no reason to believe the vaccines will be different unless we actually make an advanced plan. right now is the time for us to have a really good global action plan for equity. you do since that debate over vaccine supply will be one to watch. for the first time, the health service in england has released figures which show the number of people with learning disabilities and autism who have died from covid—19. there have been 451 deaths in hospital settings, which represents about 2% of the death

raised will be channeled to global research health research and vaccine research companies like seppi gavi the vaccines alliance the global fund and unit $8.00 jono all the while behind you at the university of oxford things are going on a pace. yeah well that's why we're here of course the university of oxford absolutely at the forefront of global research into these various aspects of the covert 19 response there is a team at the jenner institute here at the university of oxford which is absolutely streets ahead of anyone else in the search for a vaccine there are more than 100 projects around the world involved in vaccine research some of them have started small clinical trials here at the general student oxford they've got a large clinical trial underway a 1000 participants already they're scaling up to $6000.00 participants by the end of this month they've had good positive results in macaque monkeys and they are cautiously optimistic that they might have a vaccine on their hands and if they do they might know that for a fact by september but of course that means nothing in terms of w

forefront of responding to covid-19, such as the coalition for epidemic preparedness, innovations, gavy, the vaccine alliance and the solidarity trial. this is not a radical or partisan suggestion. we did our best to make it nonpartisan because it should be. does anyone in this country care if the researcher who finds that vaccine is a republican or a democrat? i certainly don't. and we shouldn't care either whether it's found in the united states or another country. i'd be so proud if it's found here, but if there is a safe and effective vaccine found in another country, we certainly want to participate in its discovery, its production, and its distribution. to stand on the sidelines at this point in history would be disastrous. madam president, last friday i was driving from chicago to st. louis. springfield, i'm sorry, chicago to springfield. it's about an hour ride. i listened to a lot of radio but it was interrupted by the president who in in press conference made it clear to us that will he was going to address the need for this global vaccine as he said at wharp speed. i've disag

the gates foundation will and also gavi the vaccine alliance will. but not the u.s. government. they're missing u.s. leadership in this regard. >> christiane, i want to ask about sweden. i think it's fascinating. a lot of people may know what's happening over there. they're essentially not doing lockdowns and now people including president trump are using that as an example to defend lockdowns, for example, here in the united states. but what is the latest out of sweden? >> so here's the thing with sweden. it's really an outlier. and look, those who are frustrated at lockdowns even here in the united kingdom would say hang on, look at sweden, they seem to be doing okay. well, it looks like in fact not. their death rate is the highest amongst their neighbors in that part of scandinavia, that part of europe there. they've got something like 2,500 deaths. compared with 400 or so for denmark. 200 or so for norway. which did do very early lockdowns and a very, very early financial relief for workers to encourage them to lock down. so sweden in fact is not out of the woods, and they s