How to confront the coronavirus catastrophe

30th March 2020

 How to confront the coronavirus catastrophe

The coronavirus is impacting everyone across the globe. People fear for their own health and for that of their loved ones. The virus exposes extreme inequalities, affecting the most vulnerable people and those living in poverty, at home and around the world. It threatens to take many millions of lives and push billions more into poverty. 

Oxfam is proposing two things that the G20 and other leaders can do now: develop a global public health plan and emergency response to tackle the disease head on; and create an economic rescue plan to pay for the huge increase in public health and to help ordinary people cope with the huge economic costs precipitated by this virus. 

Oxfam is calling for immediate action to shore up public health systems now and for the long-term, making them fair and accessible to all and saving millions of lives:

Report by Oxfam