UN calls for an immediate ceasefire in conflicts around the world to fight with a common enemy, the novel coronavirus
A Yemeni soldier loyal to the Houthi rebels mans a machine gun turret in the back of a pickup truck during a patrol in the capital Sanaa on March 23, 2020.
He said women, children, the disabled, marginalised and displaced and people caught in armed conflicts, which are raging around the world, are the most vulnerable and “are also at the highest risk of suffering devastating losses from Covid-19.” Guterres urged warring parties to “put aside mistrust and animosity” and take inspiration from efforts to get rivals to tackle the coronavirus together, but he stressed that much more was needed.
Guterres stressed that in war-ravaged countries, health systems have collapsed, “health professionals, already few in number, have often been targeted,” and refugees and the displaced are “doubly vulnerable.”
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