LONDON: Britain’s finance minister and tech billionaire Bill Gates unveiled a plan to spend billions to defeat “the world’s deadliest killer” malaria on Monday.

Chancellor George Osborne and Gates announced £3 billion ($4.28 billion, 4 billion euros) in funding over the next five years for research and to support efforts to eliminate the mosquito-borne disease, in a joint article in The Times.

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