UN chief calls for immediate attention to 3 global emergencies

United Nations, Jan 29 : United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for immediate attention to three global emergencies after listing a long string of threats and challenges the world is facing.
“Among the challenges we face, there are three global emergencies that demand immediate attention,” the UN chief told the press conference held at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported.
The secretary-general said that the first global emergency that needs immediate attention is the “distribution of vaccines for Covid-19.” Guterres said that more than 70 million doses have been administered, but less than 20,000 of these were on the African continent.
“A global immunity gap puts everyone at risk,” he said.
“Vaccine nationalism is an economic as well as a moral failure,” he said. “While every country has the right – and the duty – to protect its own people, no country can afford to neglect the rest of the world.”