<span style="color: #222222;">The UN Security Council will hold a closed video-teleconferencing session today to discuss the COVID-19 situation, the first time the world body's top organ is holding a meeting on the raging coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 88,500 people globally and infected over 1.5 million others.<br />'' <br />'' Council President for the month of April, the Dominican Republic has formally scheduled a closed video-teleconferencing (VTC) "in connection with the impact of COVID-19 on the issues that fall under the Security Council's mandate."<br />'' <br />''<br />''UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will participate in the session.</span><br />