Nepal, April 8 -- SARS-CoV-2 has caused almost 1.4 million infections and 74,000 deaths as of writing this article. By the time you read it, the numbers will likely have gone up. If there is any graph that is going up and up at the moment, it is the casualty caused by the pandemic. Having spread in over 209 countries and territories, it has already become the greatest health emergency of our times. Even the global superpowers have been caught off-guard as they realise they have little or no contingency plans to tackle an emergency of this magnitude.

The pandemic has fuelled a global panic unprecedented in recent history. This should have been reason enough for the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)-whose primary responsibility is to ...