![]() Covid-19 arrived in a world where poverty, extreme inequality and disregard for human life are thriving, and in which legal and economic policies are designed to create and sustain wealth for the powerful, but not end poverty.” Conclusion: we cannot contain the viral pandemic without also attacking the pandemic of poverty. As Philip Alston wrote in the Guardian: “The coronavirus has merely lifted the lid off the pre-existing pandemic of poverty. The virus thrives on division, but is thwarted when we unite.” To take this truth seriously means that one should take into account not only international divisions, but also the class divisions within each country. The COVID-19 pandemic is a test of global solidarity and global leadership. We cannot defeat this pandemic as a divided world. ![]() Rather, it’s the lack of leadership and solidarity at the global and national levels. The time has come for us to take seriously simple truths like the one recently announced by the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: “The greatest threat we face now is not the virus itself. This classificatory confusion only confirms that the situation with Covid-19 is getting serious, with cases erupting again all around the world.
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