UN Calls Coronavirus “Greatest Test” In Its History

Axios reports:

The novel coronavirus pandemic is the “greatest test” the world has faced together since the formation of the United Nations just after the Second World War ended in 1945, UN chief António Guterres said Tuesday.

Guterres said at the launch of a UN report on the potential socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 that the pandemic could bring a global recession that “probably has no parallel in the recent past.”

Guterres said “an immediate co-ordinated health response to suppress transmission and end the pandemic” was needed, as he called on industrialised nations to help poorer countries “face the nightmare of the disease spreading like wildfire.”