NEW YORK (Reuters) - Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a “stampede for vaccines” to combat the coronavirus pandemic, top U.N. officials told the 193-member U.N. General Assembly on Friday.
World Food Programme (WFP) chief David Beasley and World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke during a special meeting on COVID-19, which emerged in China late last year and has so far infected 65 million globally.
The pandemic, measures taken by countries to try to stop its spread and the economic impact have fueled a 40% increase in the number of people needing humanitarian help, the United Nations said earlier this week.
It has appealed for $35 billion in aid funding.
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15 comments:
only the devil cares
RIP
MOB RULES
the best thing to do is gone fishing fools and got my water springs
i think that time is is is is
what a world
United fools started the pandemic
U can't fools me see
It's raining blood already
I don't think anyone cares.
2021 a 2020 redux?
/sequels are usually worse than the original
2 years from now most of the world population will b Dead
G and kidd.
Please kindly find the nearest cliff and dive off of it.
G & Kidd are the same person. I think it has another sock puppet as well.
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