The global coronavirus death toll approached 200,000 on Saturday as the United Nations launched an international push for a vaccine to defeat the pandemic. Governments around the world are struggling to limit the economic devastation unleashed by the virus, which has infected nearly 2.8 million people and left half of ...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the global community on Thursday about the potential for the coronavirus pandemic to become a “human rights crisis.” In a video message posted on his Twitter account, Guterres said that while the coronavirus does not discriminate, its impacts do. The UN chief pointed to existing ...