Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc called on countries to further enhance solidarity and mobilize resources to effectively curb the pandemic while working together to handle its far-reaching consequences.

China will provide USD 2 billion over two years to fight the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout from it, President Xi Jinping said on May 18 at the 73rd annual World Health Assembly held by teleconference for the first-time ever, Associated Press reported.