DW: Coronavirus pandemic exposes global inequalities, says UN chief
UN chief Antonio Guterres has taken aim at rich countries for failing to help the developing world through the coronavirus crisis. The pandemic, he said, has revealed the "delusion that we live in a post-racist world."
The coronavirus has brought the world to "breaking point," exposing deep global inequalities and discrimination across societies, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Saturday.
Delivering a lecture for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the head of the UN compared the pandemic to an "x-ray" that has revealed "fractures in the fragile skeleton of the societies we have built."
"It is exposing fallacies and falsehoods everywhere: The lie that free markets can deliver health care for all ... the delusion that we live in a post-racist world. The myth that we are all in the same boat."
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WNU Editor: And what will be the organization that will manage this new global "inequitable system" .... the UN of course.
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