The United Nations chief said the “most massive public health effort in history” is needed to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brussels| United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in a strongly-worded personal message, welcomed donor nations’ donations to an over $8 billion fund, to speed up the composition of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines to end the novel coronavirus threat.
He, however, said that five times that fund is expected to be needed to put us all on “a path” to a planet free of the virus.
We are ramping up the @UN’s logistics and supply systems as part of our #COVID19 response.
This week a @WFP plane departed Belgium for Burkina Faso & Ghana, carrying medical cargo and personal protective equipment.https://t.co/6goD6diUV5 pic.twitter.com/hj98belDeq
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) May 4, 2020
Guterres said that to date, COVID-19 has “spread to every corner of the globe, affecting over three million people and claiming more than 220,000 lives.
António Guterres said that worse is yet to come as the infection is expected to strike many nations with ill-equipped health systems.
“In an interconnected world, none of us is safe until all of us are safe”, the UN Secretary-General emphasised.
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The United States has entered into a grim situation as it recorded its one-millionth case of COVID-19, about one-third of the entire world’s caseload, as per Johns Hopkins Universiti data.
Following US, Spain has the second-highest cases in the world with 218,011 infections.
Follow Italy, United Kingdom, France and Germany.
Medical experts have informed that an unanticipated rollback of social-distancing policies could trigger a resurgence of epidemics just when those restrictions are indicating of bringing the outbreak under control.
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