ABSTRACT
This article makes a preliminary analysis of the main positions and responses to covid-19 of the United Nations system and its main bodies, including the General Assembly, the Secretariat, and the World Health Organization. The article covers the period from January to May, 2020 and uses a methodology based on reading the content of the main documents issued by the UN system, and identifies the scope and limits of the approach taken, the conflicts inherent to a divided world and the disputes of political figures that take their differences to the area of global health. The article closes with a brief consideration of what is to come in a fractured and weakened multilateralism.
KEYWORDS:
Pandemic; Covid-19; Multilateralism; United Nations; World Health Organization