“The pandemic has plunged over 100 million people into poverty.
More than 4 billion people have practically no social support;
no health care;
there is no income protection when they need it so urgently, "RIA Novosti Guterres quotes.
The inequality in the distribution of vaccines dooms the world to millions of new deaths and prolongs the economic downturn, which could cost trillions of dollars and hit the poorest countries the most, he said.
He urged to increase the volume of investments and direct them both to the short-term overcoming of the consequences of the crisis and to long-term recovery.
Earlier Guterres said that at the moment the world is "on the edge of the abyss."