The World Health Organisation says the lack of global leadership and unity is a bigger threat that the Covid-19 outbreak itself.
The head of the organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the politicisation of the pandemic has made it worse.
It comes as the world records the highest daily total of infections and the global number of confirmed cases nears nine million.
Philippa Tolley speaks to the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva.
