BRUSSELS: World powers scrambled on Thursday (Apr 9) to build a global response to the human and economic catastrophe caused by the COVID-19 ...
BRUSSELS: World powers scrambled on Thursday to build a global response to the human and economic catastrophe caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as death tolls in the US and Europe soared higher.on the pandemic for the first time, and in Brussels, EU finance ministers were wrangling over how to bail out hard-hit Italy and Spain.
The worst-hit countries in Europe - the worst-hit continent - are Italy and Spain, where daily death tolls are now down from their peaks but still running high, despite strict lockdowns. Christine Lagarde, the head of the European Central Bank, said it was"vital" that ministers hatch a plan big enough to meet the challenge, warning:"If not all countries are cured, the others will suffer."European companies are also suffering under a public lockdown, which health experts say is vital to slow the virus' spread but has effectively frozen economic life.
Led by Germany, nine of the council's 10 non-permanent members requested the closed-door meeting last week, fed up with the body's inaction over the unprecedented global crisis. There has also been a week of record tolls in Britain, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent a fourth night in intensive care, his condition said to be"improving".And the pandemic is marching into areas previously only lightly affected: in Africa, Ethiopia declared a state of emergency and Liberia said it was locking down its capital Monrovia.
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