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Time for global unity: Guterres after US blasts WHO for Covid-19 response

"Now is the time for unity, for the international community to work together in solidarity to stop this virus and its shattering consequences," Guterres said.

Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres
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Guterres said the Covid-19 pandemic is one of the most dangerous challenges this world has faced in a lifetime and is above all a human crisis.

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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for global unity and solidarity to stop the coronavirus pandemic and said it is not the time to look back and assess how organisations and nations have reacted to the coronavirus crisis. This comes a day after US President Donald Trump accused the WHO of being "China-centric" and criticised its handling of the Covid-19 outbreak.

"Once we have finally turned the page on this pandemic, there must be a time to look back fully to understand how such a disease emerged and spread its devastation so quickly across the globe, and how

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