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Coronavirus ‘accelerating’ as UN chief calls for global ceasefire NewsColony World leaders are calling for a global ceasefire as it finds the coronavirus pandemic is ‘accelerating’. With more than 362,000 cases worldwide, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday: ‘It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives,’ Guterres told a virtual news conference. Elsewhere, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organisation, told reporters the pandemic is accelerating. He said: ‘More than 300,000 cases of Covid-19 have now been reported to WHO, from almost every country in the world. ‘The pandemic is accelerating. It took 67 days from the first reported case to reach the first 100,000 cases, 11 days for the second 100,000 and just four days for the third 100,000.’    Rubble lines a heavily damaged street in the town of Sarmin, near Idlib, Syria, where a ceasefire has been...