Honoring the International Donors to the Fight Against COVID-19

On Monday, May 4, 2020, the European Union (EU) took the global leadership reins in mounting an international response and fundraiser to fight the Novel Coronavirus and its associated pandemic disease, COVID-19. 

Amid the still spreading pandemic, which at time of writing has already infected upward of 3.7 million people worldwide and killing more than 260,000, the EU stepped into a global leadership void to encourage international cooperation and action against the Coronavirus. 

The fundraiser was conducted online with a view to soliciting donations from nations and other entities to develop and deploy effective diagnostics, treatment and a vaccine against COVID-19. Co-chairs of the event were: the EU, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the UK, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Canada and Japan.

Recognizing that the existence of COVID-19 anywhere on the globe meant that all nations everywhere remain vulnerable, the EU Coronavirus Global Response was successful in raising 7.4 billion Euros (US$8 billion) of a targeted 7.5 billion Euros. In honor of those donors who gave to the international effort, I thank all of them on behalf of humanity and I hereby supply the follow list of donors as named on the EU's website: global-response.europa.eu.

European Commission

European Investment Bank

Australia

Austria

Belgium

Canada

People's Republic of China

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Japan

Republic of Korea

Kuwait

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Mexico

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Saudi Arabia

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Africa

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

United Kingdom 

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

INTUIT

Wellcome Trust.