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225 VIPs urge world powers to adopt $2.5 trillion COVID plan

by Associated Press
| June 1, 2020 8:27 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 225 current and former global VIPs urged the world’s 20 major economic powers on Monday to hold an urgent meeting to agree to a $2.5 trillion plan to tackle COVID-19 and launch an economic recovery from the pandemic, especially for hard-hit developing and middle-income countries.

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