China, the United States and Russia have butted heads at the United Nations over responsibility for the pandemic that has interrupted the world, trading allegations about who mishandled and politicised the coronavirus.
The United Nations chief said in opening the Security Council meeting that the world failed to co-operate in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. Guterres said that if the world responds to even more catastrophic challenges with the same disunity and disarray, "I fear the worst."
The number of confirmed cases has spiked since the end of a nationwide lockdown in late June, adding 200,000 in less than a month, and now stands at 704,209, the highest in Western Europe. "Tough weeks are coming in Madrid. We must act with resolve to bring the pandemic under control," Health Minister Salvador Illa said before meeting regional officials.
A sign in central Manchester urges people to act now to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as cases surge.The surge has brought new restrictions on daily life, the prospect of a grim winter of mounting deaths — and a feeling of deja vu."We didn't react quick enough in March," epidemiologist John Edmunds, a member of the government's scientific advisory committee, told the BBC.
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