Wealthy countries were facing mounting calls on Monday to give more funding to poorer nations to help protect the world’s most vulnerable people from the coronavirus pandemic, warning that the spread of the virus was outpacing the global response. Oxfam called for richer nations to deliver a $160 billion package of aid and debt relief to prevent millions of deaths from COVID-19 in the developing world where people are already battling poverty, conflict and the impacts of climate change.
It warned nearly 3 billion people do not have access to clean water and millions do not have access to adequate healthcare and live in crowded slums or refugee camps where they cannot self isolate. Women were expected to be hit hardest as they make up 70% of health workers and carry out most unpaid care work. Humanitarian organisations called for wealthier nations to work together to support countries with less access to healthcare and funding who are already struggling from disease, conflicts and climate related disasters:
Not only is helping the most marginalized the right thing to do, inadequate healthcare in any part of the world is a risk to us all. The rapid spread of COVID-19 has shown how connected we all are. We will beat this virus together, for everyone, or not at all.”
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
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