Record daily rise in cases in France and Greece – as it happened
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The United Nations on Thursday called for an immediate quantum leap" in funding for global programmes to combat the coronavirus and restore prosperity.
The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, urged countries to find $15bn over the next three months to fund the ACT-Accelerator programme, a global collaboration to hunt for a vaccine and treatments led by the UN's World Health Organization (WHO).
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