The United Nations, has labelled Coronavirus as the worst
crisis to hit the world since World War II.
The warning comes as
US fatalities have now exceeded China's with nearly 860,000 people globally
confirmed with the fatal disease.
The US announced almost 800 deaths on Tuesday - bringing the
total to more than 3,700 while Spain, the United Kingdom, France and Italy each
reported their largest single-day increase in deaths since the start of the
pandemic. Other continents like Africa, South America, Australia have also been
affected by the disease with Oil prices slumping and world economies crashing.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed concern
that Coronavirus could trigger conflicts around the world.
Guterres said that the scale of the crisis was due to
"a disease that represents a threat to everybody in the world and... an
economic impact that will bring a recession that probably has no parallel in
the recent past."
"The combination of the two facts and the risk that it
contributes to enhanced instability, enhanced unrest, and enhanced conflict are
things that make us believe that this is the most challenging crisis we have
faced since the Second World War," he told reporters on Tuesday.
"A stronger and more effective response... is only
possible in solidarity if everybody comes together and if we forget political
games and understand that it is humankind that is at stake," Guterres
added.
"We are far from having a global package to help the
developing world to create the conditions both to suppress the disease and to
address the dramatic consequences," Guterres warned, pointing to
unemployment and the the collapse of small firms.
"We are slowly moving in the right direction, but we
need to speed up, and we need to do much more if we want to defeat the
virus."
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