United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic is the greatest challenge the world face...
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic is the greatest challenge the world faces since World War 2, AP reported. Guterres called for a much stronger and more effective global response to the pandemic.
The secretary general said the crisis will bring a recession “that probably has no parallel in the recent past”. A study by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development had said earlier this week that there will be a loss of trillions of dollars of global income this year due to the pandemic. It had added that except possibly India and China, the economies of all developing countries will face recession.
The United Nations chief, launching a report on the socioeconomic impact of the pandemic on Tuesday, said it will also bring “enhanced instability, enhanced unrest, and enhanced conflict” to the world.
“We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations – one that is killing people, spreading human suffering, and upending people’s lives,” the report said. “But this is much more than a health crisis. It is a human crisis. The coronavirus disease is attacking societies at their core.”
Guterres told reporters after the launch that the magnitude of...
