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"There is no effective international system ready to respond quickly to a pandemic ." Kim, a medical doctor and expert on health and disease in developing countries, put the World Bank in the lead 140 573895 The insurance will cover outbreaks of several classes of infectious diseases most at risk for epidemics: new orthomyxoviruses including influenza pandemic viruses A, B and C; coronaviruses like SARS and MERS; filoviruses like Ebola and Marburg; and other zoonotic diseases -- those 140 611502 500 million, fast-disbursing insurance fund to combat deadly pandemics in poor countries, creating the world's first insurance market for pandemic risk. Japan has committed the first $50 million towards the facility, which will combine funding from reinsurance markets with the 140 611534 which will combine funding from reinsurance markets with the proceeds of a new type of World Bank-issued high-yield pandemic "catastrophe" bond, the bank said. In the event of a pandemic outbreak, the facility will release funds quickly to affected 140 611545 a new type of World Bank-issued high-yield pandemic "catastrophe" bond, the bank said. In the event of a pandemic outbreak, the facility will release funds quickly to affected poor countries and qualified international first-responder agencies. The genesis of 140 611679 to the right place at the right time, we can save lives and protect economies," Kim added. The so-called Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility will initially provide up to $500 million that can be disbursed quickly to fight a pandemic, with 140 611698 called Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility will initially provide up to $500 million that can be disbursed quickly to fight a pandemic , with funds released once parametric triggers are met, based on the size, severity and spread of an outbreak. The facility 140 611761 It will include catastrophe, or cat bonds, in which purchasers would lose principal if fund flows are triggered by a pandemic outbreak, the World Bank said. But the insurance mechanism is limited to certain classes of infectious diseases most likely to 140 611925 contributions from G7 and other donors. He said he hoped the new facility would spur development of a market for pandemic risk, similar to that for natural catastrophe risk since the 1990s. The bank estimated that had the facility existed in 140 656707 Bhubaneswar and Jaipur. World Bank launches $500-mn emergency fund to combat pandemics The World Bank Group today launched the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF), an innovative, fast-disbursing global financing mechanism designed to protect the world against deadly pandemics, which 140 656736 global financing mechanism designed to protect the world against deadly pandemics, which will create the first-ever insurance market for pandemic risk. Japan, which holds the G7 Presidency, committed the first $50 million in funding toward the new initiative. ''Pandemics pose 140 656903 Group to develop the initiative during their May 2015 summit in Schloss-Elmau, Germany. ''Japan is proud to support the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, which prevents pandemics from undermining important development achievements",'' said deputy prime minister and minister of finance of 140 656994 at all stages of economic development.'' The new facility will accelerate both global and national responses to future outbreaks with pandemic potential. It was built and designed in collaboration with the World Health Organization and the private sector, introducing a new 140 657056 emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases,'' said Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization. ''WHO fully supports the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility as a critical contribution to global health security and a crucial line of defence against high-threat 140 657098 The fund includes an insurance window, which combines funding from the reinsurance markets with the proceeds of World Bank-issued pandemic (catastrophe, or Cat) bonds, as well as a complementary cash window. This will be the first time World Bank Cat 140 657180 of three years for outbreaks of infectious diseases most likely to cause major epidemics, including new Orthomyxoviruses (eg new influenza pandemic virus A, B and C), Coronaviridae (eg SARS, MERS), Filoviridae (eg Ebola, Marburg) and other zoonotic diseases (eg Crimean Congo 140 657327 of moderately severe to severe pandemics is roughly $570 billion, or 0.7 per cent of global GDP. A very severe pandemic like the 1918 Spanish flu could cost as much as 5 per cent of global GDP, or nearly $4 trillion 140 657354 cost as much as 5 per cent of global GDP, or nearly $4 trillion. During the past two years alone, pandemic threats have included the devastating Ebola crisis in West Africa - which crippled the economies of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone 140 657497 of important things to prevent another Ebola crisis: It will insure the world's poorest countries against the threat of a pandemic . In the event of a severe infectious disease outbreak, it will release funds quickly to the countries and/or to 140 657592 It will combine public and private resources to advance global health security, and create a new insurance market for managing pandemic risk. 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Japan has committed the first $50 million towards the facility, which will combine funding from reinsurance markets with the 140 1207363 which will combine funding from reinsurance markets with the proceeds of a new type of World Bank-issued high-yield pandemic "catastrophe" bond, the bank said. In the event of a pandemic outbreak, the facility will release funds quickly to affected 140 1207374 a new type of World Bank-issued high-yield pandemic "catastrophe" bond, the bank said. In the event of a pandemic outbreak, the facility will release funds quickly to affected poor countries and qualified international first-responder agencies. The genesis of 140 1207508 to the right place at the right time, we can save lives and protect economies," Kim added. 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