The United Nations called for the launch of a 'large-scale, coordinated and comprehensive multilateral response' to the coronavirus pandemic that would amount to at least one-tenth of global GDP
of a "Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund" established by UN Secretary-General António Guterres that is intended to "support efforts in low- and middle-income countries" to counter the coronavirus.
Guterres said in a statement that the "human crisis" of Covid-19 "demands coordinated, decisive, inclusive and innovative policy action from the world's leading economies – and maximum financial and technical support for the poorest and most vulnerable people and countries."by Covid-19, and at least 42,404 have perished as a result of the disease.
The United States, which has become the new epicenter of the pandemic, now has more confirmed cases than anywhere else in the world. But despite the demand by the UN for an international response to the coronavirus, the Trump administration has shown reluctance to enforce even national standards for managing its spread across the country.
Instead, states have imposed a patchwork of directives ranging from shelter-in-place orders to less severe instructions, while the the federal government this week
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