Tensions between Washington and Beijing ‘not conductive to the cooperative spirit we need today’, Nicolas Chapuis says But EU, China working hard to reschedule a bilateral summit – on hold since February – ahead of a planned leaders’ meeting in September, envoy says

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the spread of the infection a pandemic. Seeking to distinguish the virus from the disease it causes, the WHO named the virus SARS-CoV-2, and the disease Covid-19.