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Latin America and the Caribbean passed one million coronavirus deaths on Friday as the IMF proposed a $50 billion plan to end the pandemic, aiming to expand global immunization drives.
"From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I warned that no one is safe until everyone is safe..Grossly unequal access to vaccines, tests, medicines and supplies, including oxygen, have left poorer countries at the mercy of the virus," Guterres said in his statement to the Global Health Summit on Friday.
Coronavirus: G20 leaders call for urgent action to overcome pandemic Mustapha Temidayo
World leaders met in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday at the Global Health Summit, co-hosted by the European Commission and Italy, to adopt an agenda to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, an official statement said.
The leaders will develop and endorse a Rome Declaration of principles at a time when the virus is surging and spreading uncontrollably in many parts of the world.
“With nine people losing their lives to COVID-19 every minute, and as the risk of even more transmissible and dangerous variants increases, the Global Health Summit comes at a critical juncture. The future of the pandemic is in the hands of the G20 leaders,” the statement said.