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UN urges help for countries near `debt distress' from virus

by Associated Press
| June 2, 2020 10:03 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The president of the U.N. Economic and Social Council called for urgent action Tuesday to help the growing number of countries already facing or at risk of “debt distress” because of the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

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