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US think tanks push for new fund to help poor countries combat coronavirus
As concern about coronavirus grows, three Washington-based think tanks are proposing that the G7 launch a new health security fund, managed by the World Bank, to help poor countries cope with a possible future pandemic. A researcher in Oslo warns that such a fund would further fragment the complicated global health architecture and weaken the World Health Organisation.