Indonesia seeks support for first UN resolution on virus

Sanitary surrender: A woman being sprayed with disinfectant inside a makeshift sterilisation chamber in Jakarta. — AP

AMID global calls for a multilateral presence and response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Indonesia and a handful of other countries have drafted a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for global solidarity to fight it.

Indonesian delegate to the UN Dian Triansyah Djani said the draft resolution by Indonesia, Ghana, Liechtenstein, Norway, Singapore and Switzerland had support from almost 150 UN countries.