Gates Foundation commits another $250 million to fight COVID-19

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed another $250 million toward the development and distribution of COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines. The commitment is the foundation’s largest single contribution to the medical response to the pandemic, it announced Wednesday. Melinda Gates told Yahoo Finance that some of the money will go toward procuring 200 million doses of vaccines and 120 million rapid response tests for non-first-world nations.