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		</div><p>Former British prime minister Gordon Brown has called on the US and China to <em>“step up to the plate”</em> and pledge to join a multi-billion pound drive to prevent a second wave of coronavirus.</p>
<p>The ex-PM has said the two economic giants are facing an “<em>appointment with destiny”</em> as he urged them to become involved in raising an $8bn Covid-19 “<em>fighting fund”</em> to pay for vaccines, treatments and test kits for developing countries.</p>
<p>Mr Brown, who was in Downing St between 2007-2010, insisted there was a <em>“deadly urgency”</em> about nations working together now to stop a second wave of the disease impacting on the world’s poorest countries, and then returning to the rest of the globe.</p>
<p>Mr Brown is calling on US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to participate in an online summit on May 4.</p>
<p>The summit was planned after a letter was signed by 200 economists, health professionals and former presidents and prime ministers, calling for greater global cooperation, Mr Brown said.</p>
<p>Mr Brown stated: <em>“If we are to stop this in its tracks, our interventions will only be as effective as the weakest link in the global chain.</em></p>
<p><em>“So, if any issue is a candidate for multilateral global action, then it must be our response to this pandemic.</em></p>
<p><em>“The health of each depends on the health of all.</em></p>
<p><em>“Local solutions everywhere are only as good as the global response.</em></p>
<p><em>“To that end, we must outlaw the ugly ‘vaccine nationalism’ that seems to be setting in.</em></p>
<p><em>“Restricting new vaccines to those who can afford them will condemn millions to enduring multiple waves of the illness.&#8221;</em></p>
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