July 17, 2020

A top official from the United Nations warned Friday of decades of tragedies if wealthy nations don’t help poorer nations fight the coronavirus, which continues to rapidly spread across the globe. 

“Unless we act now, we should be prepared for a series of human tragedies, more brutal and more destructive than any of the direct impacts of the virus itself,” U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock told reporters on a call hosted by the World Health Organization.

Inaction from world leaders will leave the coronavirus free to circle the globe and “undo decades of development, and it will create decades worth of tragic and exportable problems,” Lowcock said.

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