Hopes rose in the fight against the coronavirus on Monday as world leaders pledged billions of euros for a vaccine in a special telethon and European countries edged out of lockdown. Despite US President Donald Trump snubbing the fundraising effort, the World Health Organization hailed the 7.4 billion euro ($8.1 billion) haul as a "powerful" show of global solidarity. The world is desperately hunting a vaccine for the disease that has killed nearly 250,000 people.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2020

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