The United Nations is looking at different ways to hold its 75th annual gathering of world leaders - traditionally held in New York City - because "we're not going to have business as usual in September," a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday.
New York City is an epicenter for the global coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes the respiratory illness COVID-19 and has killed hundreds of thousands of people globally.
"It's hard to imagine that the traditional General Assembly with thousands and thousands of people descending on New York and on the U.N. compound can be held this September as if nothing happened," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.