UN chief warns first virtual leaders’ summit of ‘epochal’ health crisis
Secretary-general Antonio Guterres has warned the UN’s first virtual meeting of global leaders that the world is facing an “epochal” health crisis, the biggest economic calamity since the Great Depression, threats to human rights and worries of a new Cold War between the US and China.
In a grim state of the world speech to the UN General Assembly’s annual high-level meeting, the UN chief said the coronavirus that had “brought the world to its knees” was just “a dress rehearsal for the world of challenges to come”.
