Trudeau announces additional fund for medical research on COVID-19
OTTAWA, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Thursday to allot additional 1.1 billion Canadian dollars (about 782 million U.S. dollars) for national medical research against the COVID-19.
"The better we understand this virus, its spread and its impact on different people, the better we can fight it and eventually defeat it," Trudeau said at a news conference in Ottawa on Thursday.