The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, in a video message on Thursday 19 March, called for exceptional means, of exceptional magnitude, based on international solidarity to address the Covid-19 crisis - an unprecedented global, health, human and economic crisis.
In his view, the scattered national measures taken so far were not commensurate with the challenge, and solidarity should be shown with the countries with the weakest capacities, particularly developing countries.
"A global...