Friday, 28 May 2021, 8:54 am United Nations Secretary-General today called on some of the world’s leading philanthropists and business leaders to urgently help to ramp up critical global efforts to ensure vaccine equity, and join the fight to end the COVID-19 pandemic which has claimed and upended countless lives and livelihoods over the last 18 months. “We need global companies to mobilize on a global scale to beat this pandemic,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres at a high-level virtual roundtable hosted by the UN Verified initiative, the IKEA Foundation and Purpose — a social impact agency that works with the United Nations on the