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"We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic," says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, urging the world to seize the opportunity to end the pandemic. SOUNDBITE
Ridding the world of the novel coronavirus, which has killed more than 190,000 people worldwide, will require the biggest public health effort ever seen, Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres says. SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization says that a safe and effective vaccine would be needed to fully halt the spread of COVID-19, which has killed more than 114,000 people worldwide. SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says the world should be working harder to contain the spread of the deadly new coronavirus, and should be preparing for a "potential pandemic". IMAGES
The UN rights chief warns that the world needs to change paths to avoid a future filled with military escalation, repression, disinformation, deepening inequality and rampant climate change. "We are at a fork in the road: We can either continue on our current path — a treacherous ‘new normal’ — and sleepwalk into a dystopian future, or we can wake up and turn things around for the better, for humanity and the planet," Volker Turk tells the United Nations Human Rights Council. SOUNDBITE