The World Health Organization (WHO) is lacking $1.3 billion for its coronavirus response in 2020, Director-General of WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday.

'The updated plan estimates that WHO requires $1.7 billion dollars to respond to COVID-19 across the three levels of the organization between now and the end of 2020.

This estimate includes the funds that WHO has already received to date, leaving WHO's COVID-19 response with a funding gap of $1.3 billion for 2020,' Tedros told a briefing