
The coronavirus pandemic requires an unprecedented global response, and reducing the funding of the World Health Organisation, which champions that response, is untimely, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an interview. “Once we have finally turned the page on COVID-19, there will be time to look back fully and understand ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for an “all-out effort” to end the “tsunami of hate and xenophobia” sparked by the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, without naming specific countries. “The pandemic continues to unleash a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scaremongering,” Guterres said in a statement. “Anti-foreigner sentiment ...