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Coronavirus is the ‘worst crisis’ since World War II – United Nations

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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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