United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reprimanded the world on Tuesday for the inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, describing it as an “obscenity” and giving the globe an “‘F’ in ethics.” Guterres was addressing the annual UN gathering of world leaders, with a formidable agenda of escalating crises to tackle including the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S.-China tensions and the relentlessly warming planet.
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