Corona virus: 'Greatest test since World War Two', says UN chief

The current coronavirus flare-up is the greatest test for the world since World War Two, UN Secretary General António Guterres has cautioned. 

He said it could bring a downturn "that presumably has no equal in the ongoing past".

Mr Guterres was talking at the dispatch of an UN report on the potential financial effect of the flare-up.

The quantity of affirmed cases far and wide is presently approaching 850,000, with in excess of 41,000 passings.

The loss of life in the US is presently more than 3,600 - higher than that in China, where the flare-up started toward the end of last year.

In excess of 181,000 individuals in America have been contaminated, as per the information ordered by Johns Hopkins college.

Around three out of four Americans are presently, or going to be, under some type of lockdown, as more US states fix measures to battle the coronavirus, which causes the Covid-19 illness.

Then, Spain, one of the most exceedingly terrible hit nations, recorded 849 passings over the most recent 24 hours - the most noteworthy number of fatalities in a solitary day.

In the UK, an aggregate of 1,789 individuals have kicked the bucket on 30 March - an ascent of 381, authorities state. Among the casualties was a 13-year-old kid, King's College Hospital Trust in London said.

What did Mr Guterres state? 

Talking at the UN base camp in New York City, Mr Guterres stated: "The new coronavirus infection is assaulting social orders at their center, asserting lives and individuals' occupations.

Covid-19 is the best test that we have confronted together since the development of the United Nations.

The UN boss required "a prompt co-ordinated wellbeing reaction to stifle transmission and end the pandemic".

Mr Guterres encouraged the industrialized countries to help those less created, or conceivably "face the bad dream of the ailment fanning out quickly".

The UN report gauges that up to 25 million occupations could be lost the world over as the consequence of the episode.

It additionally extends an up to 40% "descending weight" on worldwide remote direct speculation streams.