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G-20 summit provides chance to rally strongly against coronavirus threat: UN chief

G-20 summit provides chance to rally strongly against coronavirus threat: UN chief UN Japan/Ichiro Mae. UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the G-20 summit in Japan in 2019. He is shown at the Climate Change Trilateral Meeting with HE Mr. Jean-Yves Le Drian, Foreign Minister of France and HE Mr. Wang Yi, Foreign Minister of China         24 March 2020 Health The COVID-19 crisis presents an "extraordinary opportunity" for the world’s leading economic forum to respond to the numerous threats the disease poses to people everywhere, the  UN Secretary-General  has said. In  a letter  to the members of the Group of 20 industralized powers (G-20), António Guterres welcomed their decision to convene an emergency virtual summit on the pandemic, which has already affected health, education and economies worldwide. " COVID-19  will require a response like none before -- a ‘war-time’ plan in times of human crisis",