A global response to beat the virus is in the interest of all countries. No one is safe until everyone is safe

Ordinary citizens will remember which leaders stepped up to the challenge and delivered for their people, rather than retreating into shrill nationalism and the search for scapegoats, writes Gro Harlem Brundtland

Citizens will remember which leaders stepped up and delivered for their people (PA)

Covid-19 has exposed our common and interconnected frailties. No country can tackle the pandemic and overcome its economic and social impact alone.

We need a collective and concerted mobilisation on a scale unseen since the Second World War. We need it to enable universal rapid testing in all countries, develop effective treatments and a vaccine, as well as make sure we can ramp up production and access to those treatments.

This is in all countries’ interests, rich and poor. In a pandemic, no one is safe until everyone is safe.