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The coronavirus pandemic should serve as a “wake-up call” to the world which must be more united in responding to the crisis, the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has said.
Guterres said Covid-19 was the “greatest challenge of our age” and had demonstrated the world’s fragility, as nations went their own way in tackling the pandemic, Reuters reports. He added that the crisis was an opportunity to rebuild a better world, bu questioned whether countries were up to it.
More than 100 countries are now backing calls for a global investigation into the origins and spread of Covid-19.
Ahead of a virtual meeting of the World Health Organization Assembly, which will be devoted to Covid-19, several dozen countries have called for an inquiry “to identify the zoonotic source of the virus and the route of introduction to the human population”. The draft text does not mention China, whose government has previously declared its opposition to any international inquiry.
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