'We are at war with Covid epidemic': UN chief

Ground Report | New Delhi: World Health Organization (WHO) annual gathering in Geneva on Monday, May 24, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said, We are fighting the Covid virus and to win this war we all have to use logic to fight the virus. ”

In his inaugural address to the annual gathering of World Health Organization member states in Switzerland, Antonio Guterres said that the global community must use all its "weapons" to succeed in the fight against the Corona epidemic.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that the world is currently in a state of war against the global corona virus and that in order to win this war, the international community must adopt the logic of war in its struggle.

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“Sadly, unless we act now, we face a situation in which rich countries vaccinate the majority of their people and open their economies, while the virus continues to cause deep suffering by circling and mutating in the poorest countries,” he said.

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Fourteenth World Health Assembly

The meeting of WHO member states that began on Monday is called the World Health Assembly, or WHA. This is the 74th meeting of its kind. This year's meeting has gained special significance in the context of the global corona virus epidemic. The top leaders of WHO member countries are participating online.

There are 194 member countries of the WHO and the same number of countries are participating in the WHA this year. The World Assembly on Health will run until June 1.

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