United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for a global ...
FILE PHOTO: Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General, speaks at a news conference at the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and the Government of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 10, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo
“It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives,” Guterres told a virtual news conference. The spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus has drawn comparisons with painful periods such as World War Two, the 2008 financial crisis and the 1918 Spanish flu.
“The most vulnerable - women and children, people with disabilities, the marginalized and the displaced - pay the highest price,” he said. “They are also at the highest risk of suffering devastating losses from COVID-19.”
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