The UN Security Council’s Chinese presidency has canceled the body’s two final meetings scheduled this week, due to the coronavirus crisis, diplomatic sources say.
After an earlier cancellation of a meeting planned for today, the Security Council was planning to discuss the situation of Darfur in Sudan on Wednesday, and address multilateralism on Thursday.
While the Chinese delegation has not publicly announced the move, diplomats from other countries have confirmed the decision.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric tells journalists that a positive COVID-19 case was identified among staff at the UN secretariat, after a Philippines diplomat was reported infected last week.
The United Nations building remains open, and Secretary General Antonio Guterres is in his office today, according to Dujarric.
But the number of people entering the building in New York city has shrunk: only some 900 people, rather than the normal several thousand per day, he says.
— AFP
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