The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide an additional $ 250 million to support efforts to create vaccines for COVID-19 and provide medical care to people infected with the new coronavirus, Reuters reported.

This contribution - the largest of the fund's donations for these purposes - will supplement the $ 70 million allocated by the organization in November and bring the total amount of financial assistance to the fund in the fight against the global pandemic to $ 1.75 billion, the agency said.

Its representatives noted that the additional funds will also go to finance the delivery of tests and vaccines to low- and middle-income countries.