Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Nick Coatsworth said that the strategy of suppression was working, and that it would a 'magnificent outcome' if there was complete eradication of COVID-19 in parts of the country. Follow our live updates here
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic is "a human crisis that is fast becoming a human rights crisis."
He warned that with "rising ethno-nationalism, populism, authoritarianism and a push back against human rights in some countries, the crisis can provide a pretext to adopt repressive measures for purposes unrelated to the pandemic." The secretary-general said he was releasing a report Thursday on how human rights must guide the response to the virus and recovery from the pandemic. Neither he nor the report name any countries or parties responsible for human rights violations.
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