A patient receives a shot in the first-stage study of a potential vaccine for Covid-19 in Seattle last month.
“We face a global public enemy like no other,” Guterres said. “A world free of Covid-19 requires the most massive public health effort in history.” New reported cases seem to have levelled off at about 80,000 a day, as distancing measures have taken root and the daily death toll in Western countries appeared to be falling – a sign hopeful epidemiologists have been looking for.
“The world needs the development, production and equitable delivery of safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics,” Guterres said. “We are used to seeing the holy mosque crowded with people during the day, night, all the time… I feel pain deep inside,” said Ali Mulla, the muezzin who gives the call to prayer at the Grand Mosque.
In the United States, the Congressional Budget Office forecast GDP will contract by 12% in the April-June quarter and the federal deficit, due to massive stimulus spending, will explode to US$3.7 trillion in 2020.
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