Bangladesh, Oct. 23 -- General Antonio Guterres urged 20 major industrialised nations to be united to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

The UN chief says it's "very frustrating" that leaders of the 20 major industrialised nations didn't come together in March and establish a coordinated response to grapple with the coronavirus in all countries as he proposed.

The result, he says, is every country is taking its own, sometimes contradictory, actions and the virus is moving "from east to west, north to south", with second waves of infections now affecting many countries.

Ahead of the Group of 20 summit next month, Guterres said this in an interview with The Associated Press.

However, he said he hoped the international community now underst...