Funding boost for cities
KIM HARRISBERG FROM sky banners in Cape Town to information campaigns led by transgender people in Rio de Janeiro, new funding announced yesterday will help 18 cities around the world boost COVID-19 vaccine confidence and reach vulnerable groups. The 18 African, Asian and Latin American countries will each receive $50,000 from the charity Bloomberg Philanthropies to creatively tackle misinformation and logistical bottlenecks in a bid to get more people vaccinated and save lives. "We simply will not end the pandemic anywhere until we end it everywhere," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) which has partnered…