U.N. chief sees ‘lack of coordination’ to combat coronavirus

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has criticized the total lack of international coordination in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guterres came up with the claim at an interview with a news agency on Tuesday.

The Secretary-General  also warned that the go-it-alone policy of many countries will not defeat the coronavirus

COVID-19 started in China, moved to Europe, then to North America and now to South America, Africa and India, he said, and some people are now talking about second waves coming at any moment.

Yet, he said, “there is total lack of coordination among countries in the response to the COVID.”

Guterres said it’s important to use that fact “to make countries understand that bringing them together, putting together their capacities, not only in fighting the pandemic in a coordinated way but in working together to have the treatments, testing mechanisms, the vaccines … accessible to everybody, that this is the way we defeat the pandemic.”



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