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U.N. chief says covid-19 is ‘the greatest crisis of our age’

1 Min Read • Oct. 25, 2020 | 5 years Ago

Father Jonathan Gonzalez celebrates a drive-in Sunday Mass set up to circumvent the regulations that prevent concentrations in religious temples, imposed since March by the authorities to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, at the parking lot of the ‘Nuestra Señora de Coromoto’ church in the El Paraiso neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela.

People eat in a restaurant Sunday in central Rome. For at least the next month, people outdoors except for small children must now wear masks in all of Italy, gyms, cinemas and movie theaters will be closed, ski slopes are off-limits to all but competitive skiers and cafes and restaurants must shut down in early evenings, under a decree signed on Sunday by Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte, who ruled against another severe lockdown despite a current surge in covid-19 infections.

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte adjusts his face mask Sunday as he announces new rules to curb the spread of covid-19, in Rome.

A patrol of the federal police goes along Kollwitz-Platz in Berlin, Germany. In connection with the corona restrictions, numerous police officers checked during the night that the curfew and contact restrictions were being observed.

Commuters wearing face masks walk on the platform, of a Paris subway, Sunday Oct.25, 2020. A curfew intended to curb the spiraling spread of the coronavirus, has been imposed in many regions of France including Paris and its suburbs.

A woman wearing a mask walks by a General de Gaulle statue, on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, Sunday Oct.25, 2020. A curfew intended to curb the spiraling spread of the coronavirus, has been imposed in many regions of France including Paris and its suburbs.

Spanish airline Iberia crew workers wearing face masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus arrive Sunday at Adolfo Suarez-Barajas international airport, outskirts Madrid, Spain. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has declared a second nationwide state of emergency in hopes of stemming a resurgence in coronavirus infections.

BERLIN — The head of the United Nations said Sunday that “the covid-19 pandemic is the greatest crisis of our age.”

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened an online session of the World Health Summit with a call for worldwide solidarity in the global crisis and demanded that developed countries support health systems in countries that are short of resources.

The coronavirus pandemic is the overarching theme of the summit, which originally had been scheduled for Berlin. Several of the leaders and experts who spoke at the opening stressed the need to cooperate across borders.

“No one is safe from covid-19. No one is safe until we are all safe from it,” said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. “Even those who conquer the virus within their own borders remain prisoners within these borders until it is conquered everywhere.”

More than 42 million have been infected with the virus and over 1 million people have died of covid.

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