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Boris Johnson has urged the world to unite against the coronavirus, suggesting that it has made nations appear “selfish” and seemingly warning against comparing countries’ death rates.
In a prerecorded speech to the United Nations General Assembly, the prime minister said that “the very notion of the international community seems in tatters” nine months later. COVID-19 pandemic.
“Unless we unite and turn our fire against our common enemy, we know that everyone will lose,” he said.
“The inevitable result will be to prolong this calamity and increase the risk of another.”
He went on to outline a plan to prevent another global pandemic, including a network of zoonotic research laboratories around the world to identify dangerous pathogens before they pass from animals to humans.
“COVID-19 has caused us to cease other vital work and I fear it made individual nations appear selfish and divided from one another,” he said.
“Every day people were openly encouraged to study a creepy reverse olympic league table and to feel morbid and totally wrong with the greatest sufferings of others.
“We cannot continue like this, we cannot make these mistakes again.
“And here in the UK, the birthplace of Edward Jenner, who pioneered the world’s first vaccine, we are determined to do everything in our power to work with our friends at the UN, to heal those divisions. and heal the world. “
Donald Trump has cut US funding to the World Health Organization
Government figures say the UK has suffered nearly 42,000 deaths from coronavirus, the highest number in Europe and the fifth largest toll in the world.
Thirty-four deaths were confirmed in the last update on saturday.
Meanwhile, figures from the UK statistics agency show that more than 57,000 deaths have been recorded in the country where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus previously praised the Prime Minister’s response to coronavirus
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The UK will take over the G7 presidency next year, so this speech showed how Boris johnson it’s going to get closer to that role.
He listed his five-point plan to ensure that, if there were any future pandemics, countries around the world could work together more effectively to develop a vaccine.
He also highlighted concerns about rising fees and charges on things like sanitizers and soap, and the impact on poorer nations in need of supplies.
Essentially, the prime minister was exposing what he sees as the mistakes that he believes were made.
He referred to his “right to know” where this virus came from and how it started, as someone who has suffered from the disease.
He spoke of increasing the level of UK funding to the World Health Organization (WHO).
At a time when the United States and Donald Trump have frozen funding, it is clearly a very political move.
The UK is becoming the largest donor country to that organization, and the prime minister is clearly trying to show how important he thinks it is that the international community come together to fight this virus rather than divide.
