Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday, that the coronavirus pandemic is the worst global crisis since World War II, and it could also trigger conflicts worldwide

According to Guterres,” 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.”

He also told the reporters that, “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 added, “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”.

In 1945, the United Nations New York-based was found at the end of the war with 193 members.

So far, more than 40,000 people had killed as the disease spreads across the world, and that causes economic devastation.

Pointing to the unemployment and small firms that collapse, he said, “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. 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.”

On Tuesday, the UN had created a new fund to help the developing countries. This was after last week for the appealing of donations for poor and conflict-hit nations.

Guterres said referring to rich countries, “we need to have innovative financial instruments,” so that developing nations are able to respond to the crisis.

He also warned that the pandemic outbreak could return from poorer countries, especially in Africa. And to hit wealthy countries again and millions could die if that happens.

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