COVID-19 WAKEUP CALL FOR ALL NATIONS: UN CHIEF

Geneva: United Nations

(UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday that the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest challenge of our age and it must be a wake-up call for all nations. Delivering a speech through a video link to the 73rd World Health Assembly, the UN chief said that the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated our global fragility, and despite the enormous scientific and technological advances of recent decades, “a microscopic virus has brought us to our knees.” “Deadly global threats require a new unity and solidarity,” he stressed.