Address ‘unprecedented’ impact of coronavirus on Latin America and the Caribbean, urges Guterres

9 July 2020
Health
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As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the world, Latin America and the Caribbean have become a “hotspot of the pandemic”, the UN chief said on Thursday, releasing a new policy initiative on how best to recover in a region already embroiled in poverty, hunger, unemployment and inequality. 
 

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