German environment minister: virus is wake-up call

German environment minister Svenja Schulze said in Berlin on Thursday that postponement of United Nations global climate summit due to coronavirus crisis "is completely understandable", but pressed for global protection of nature.
U.K. government said on Wednesday that meeting, due to take place in Glasgow, Scotland, in vember, will w be held next year at a date still to be determined.

Schulze stressed that meeting is t cancelled, and that current pandemic is a "wake-up call" call to act more decisively against destruction of nature.

For most people, new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks.

For some, especially older ults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death.