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Secretary-General launches UN Comprehensive Response to COVID-19 to save lives, protect societies, recover better

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Secretary-General launches UN Comprehensive Response to COVID-19 to save lives, protect societies, recover better

Secretary-General António Guterres
25 June 2020
UNICEF/UNI280305/Cote d'Ivoire
UNICEF/UNI280305/Cote d'Ivoire

The COVID-19 pandemic is more than a health crisis; it is an economic crisis, a humanitarian crisis, a security crisis, and a human rights crisis. This crisis has highlighted severe fragilities and inequalities within and among nations. Coming out of this crisis will require a whole-of-society, whole-of-government and whole-of-the-world approach driven by compassion and solidarity.

TheResponsesets out what we can and must do to:

  • Deliver a global response that leaves no-one behind
  • Reduce our vulnerability to future pandemics
  • Build resilience to future shocks – above all climate change
  • Overcome the severe and systemic inequalities exposed by the pandemic.

TheResponsepromotes three pillars of operation:

  • Delivery of a large-scale, coordinated and comprehensive health response
  • Adoption of policies that address the devastating socioeconomic, humanitarian and human rights aspects of the crisis
  • A recovery process that builds back better

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