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Covid-19 exposing inequalities; world at 'breaking point': UN chief

Antonio Guterres calls out 'lies that free markets can deliver health care for all, fiction that unpaid care work is not work'

Antonio Guterres
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Antonio Guterres says the coronavirus has revealed the 'fragile skeletons' of societies.

AP | PTI Johanneshburg
The U.N. secretary-general made a sweeping call Saturday to end global inequalities that sparked this year's massive anti-racism protests and have been further exposed by the coronavirus pandemic, warning the world was at "breaking point".

"Covid-19 has been likened to an X-ray, revealing fractures in the fragile skeleton of the societies we have built," Antonio Guterres said as he delivered the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture.

"It is exposing fallacies and falsehoods everywhere: The lie that free markets can deliver health care for all, the fiction that unpaid care work is not work, the delusion that we live in a post-racist