The pandemic halted decades of advances in fighting poverty and disease and reversed progress towards achieving the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, according to a new report on Monday.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's 2020 Goalkeepers report says that in just six months COVID-19 has "reinforced inequities and derailed achievement" of most of the world body's ambitious goals, or SDGs, for ending poverty, fighting inequality and stopping climate change by the end of this decade.
