Mista Guterres ya bayyana haka ne a wurin kaddamar da wani rahoto kan yadda annobar za ta shafi tattalin arzikin duniya, inda ya ce annnobar za ta iya haddasa rikicin tattalin arziki "wanda ba a taba ganin irinsa ba a baya-bayan nan".
Wannan gargadi nasa yana zuwa ne a daidai lokacin da ake hasashe kan yadda matakan da ake dauka na yaki da coronavirus za su shafi tattalin arziki.
"Covid-19 ce ma fi girman kalubale da muka fuskanta tun bayan kafa Majalisar Dinkin Duniya," in ji Guterres.
Wani rahoton Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ya yi hasashen cewa za a rasa aikin yi kusan miliyan 25 a fadin duniya sakamakon annobar. Sannan ya yi hasashen cewa kudaden zuba jari ma za su ragu da kusan kashi 40 cikin 100.
Adadin wadanda cutar ta yi ajalinsu a fadin duniya ya kai kusan 42,000 sannan kusan 860,000 suka kamu.
Fiye da mutum 4,000 ne suka mutu a Amurka sakamakon cutar - sama da na kasar China, inda cutar ta fara bulla a karshen shekarar bara.
Jami'ar Johns Hopkins ta ce mutum 865 sun mutu a cikin awa 24 da suka gabata a Amurka, sannan mutum 189,000 ne suka kamu da cutar a kasar.