More than $8bn (£6.5bn) has been swore to help build up a coronavirus antibody and store examination into the finding and treatment of the sickness.
About 40 nations and contributors participated in an online highest point facilitated by the EU.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the cash would help launch extraordinary worldwide co-activity.
She said it demonstrated the genuine estimation of solidarity and mankind, yet cautioned substantially more would be required in the not so distant future.
Altogether, in excess of 30 nations, alongside UN and altruistic bodies and research foundations, made gifts.
Givers additionally included pop artist Madonna, who vowed €1m ($1.1m), said Ms von der Leyen, who set out the Brussels-drove activity on Friday.
The European Commission vowed $1bn to subsidize examine on an antibody. Norway coordinated the European Commission’s commitment, and France has promised €500m, as have Saudi Arabia and Germany. Japan vowed more than $800m.
The US and Russia didn’t participate. China, where the infection started in December, was spoken to by its represetative to the European Union.
Of the cash raised, $4.4bn will go on immunization improvement, some $2bn on the quest for a treatment and $1.6bn for delivering tests, the EU said.
In her introductory statements at the highest point, Ms von der Leyen said everybody must chip in to back “a really worldwide undertaking”.
“I accept 4 May will check a defining moment in our battle against coronavirus in light of the fact that today the world is meeting up,” she said.
“The accomplices are many, the objective is one: to overcome this infection.”
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, another co-host of the meeting, said the “more we arrange” in sharing ability, “the quicker our researchers will succeed” in building up an immunization.
Mr Johnson, who went through three evenings in serious consideration with Covid-19, was to affirm the UK’s vow of £388m for immunization research, testing and treatment during the gathering.
Alongside the European Commission, the meeting is being co-facilitated by the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway and Saudi Arabia.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are additionally among the individuals who have joined to the activity.
In the open letter distributed in end of the week papers, the pioneers said the assets raised would “launch an exceptional worldwide co-activity among researchers and controllers, industry and governments, universal associations, establishments and social insurance experts”.
“On the off chance that we can build up an antibody that is created by the world, for the entire world, this will be a novel worldwide open great of the 21st Century,” they included.
Simultaneously, the signatories gave their support to the World Health Organization even with US analysis of its treatment of the flare-up.
The UN says an arrival to typical life may be conceivable with an antibody.
Many research ventures attempting to discover an immunization are at present under path over the world.
Indeed, even with progressively money related duty, it will set aside some effort to know which ones may work and how well.
Most specialists figure it could take until mid-2021, around 12-year and a half after the new infection originally rose, for an antibody to open up.
