Bengaluru — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday pledged an additional $250m to support the development of low-cost and easier-to-deliver treatments and vaccines against Covid-19.

The foundation’s latest contribution, its largest to date, comes on top of the $70m it added in November. This brings its total commitments to the global pandemic response to $1.75bn, the foundation said...

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