The syringes come on top of another 620 million that UNICEF will purchase for other vaccination programmes against diseases such as measles and typhoid.
Gluck, a former US poet laureate, is just the 16th woman to win the Nobel for literature since it was started in 1901.
Just $3 billion has been contributed so far for the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator programme which was launched in April and is aimed at pooling international resources to combat the pandemic. UN says $35 billion more needed.
Clubs are still in crisis management mode and the full picture would not be known until annual accounts begin to be published within weeks, the president of Italian champion Juventus said.
The COVAX facility will not only pool risk for countries developing and buying vaccines, but also ensure prices are kept "as low as possible," WHO chief Tedros says.
The announcement follows strong criticism by US President Donald Trump' s administration, which accused the WHO of being "China-centric", and has started its withdrawal from the UN agency.
The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged the risk after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its guidance on how the respiratory disease passes between people.
"Many countries are now experiencing difficulties obtaining oxygen concentrators," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference.
84-year-old Blatter has been notified by Swiss federal prosecutors that he is an “accused person” over a loan FIFA gave in 2010 to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association, according to a document seen by The Associated Press.
Spain’s former monarch, King Juan Carlos I, a transformative political figure, might have received illicit money from Saudi royals for a rail project.
The 38-year-old Swiss national said he needed follow-up arthroscopic surgery after undergoing a similar procedure in February.
A White House spokesman said Michael White's release may lead to an opening in the otherwise deeply bitter relationship between Iran and the United States.
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