The brand new coronavirus is “menacing the whole of humanity” because it continues its march throughout the globe, UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres stated Wednesday whereas launching a $2 billion plan to fight the pandemic.
“The whole of humanity must fight back. Individual country responses are not going to be enough,” Guterres stated on the UN’s New York headquarters, interesting to governments to lend assist that he referred to as a “moral imperative” and a “necessity for global health security.”
The brand new interagency plan to fight COVID-19 combines current appeals from the World Well being Organisation and different UN organisations, and identifies new wants.
“Properly funded, it will save many lives and arm humanitarian agencies and NGOs with laboratory supplies for testing, and with medical equipment to treat the sick while protecting health care workers,” he stated.
There are practically 439,000 confirmed coronavirus circumstances worldwide with the loss of life toll quickly nearing 20,000, in keeping with a tally being compiled by Johns Hopkins College in Baltimore, Maryland.
Because the virus spreads, Guterres emphasise the significance of propping up nations already within the midst of humanitarian crises, noting that even developed nations with strong well being programs “are buckling under the pressure.”
“We must come to the aid of the ultra-vulnerable – millions upon millions of people who are least able to protect themselves,” the UN chief stated. “This is a matter of basic human solidarity.”
