{"id":82537,"date":"2020-10-18T09:25:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T09:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=82537"},"modified":"2020-10-18T09:25:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T09:25:37","slug":"divided-world-is-failing-covid-19-test-u-n-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/divided-world-is-failing-covid-19-test-u-n-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Divided world is failing COVID-19 test: U.N. chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A divided world has failed to rise to the challenge of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday and warned concerted action was needed to prevent millions of people being pushed into poverty and hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Portuguese prime minister said far more could have been done if countries had worked together to combat the disease, which has killed more than one million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that if coordinated measures were not taken, \u201ca microscopic virus could push millions of people into poverty and hunger, with devastating economic effects in the years to come\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guterres also criticised countries for a lack of unity in trying to solve other global challenges including the conflicts in Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria. \u201cIt is a source of enormous frustration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 39 million people have been infected by COVID-19, according to a tally.Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A divided world has failed to rise to the challenge of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82539,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82537\/revisions\/82539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}