COVID-19 pandemic ‘quickly becoming a child rights crisis': Daily death rate could spike by 6,000 for under-fives
Nurses are wearing masks and gloves to protect against the Coronavirus, in the health center...
Joint statement between the UK and France: 10 May 2020
The Prime Minister and President Macron spoke on 10 May 2020. They stressed the need for close bilateral, European and international cooperation in the fight against Covid-19.
Coronavirus and human rights: New UN report calls for disability-inclusive recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying inequalities experienced by the world’s one billion people with disabilities, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in launching a report issued on Wednesday that calls for a disability-inclusive recovery and...
COVID-19 impact could be ‘disastrously high’ in poverty-stricken Malawi
In Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries, with a fragile health system, the UN is bracing for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic which, it is feared, could be severe.
The global response: Working together to help the world get better
“Chance favours the prepared mind”. This was the mantra of Louis Pasteur, one of the world’s greatest scientists and a mastermind behind vaccines and breakthroughs which have saved millions of lives spanning three centuries.
UN prepares for potentially devastating COVID-19 outbreak in conflict-ravaged northeast Nigeria
In northeast Nigeria, where armed conflict has forced millions from their homes, the UN’s migration agency, IOM, is supporting the construction of quarantine shelters, as the region braces for an outbreak of COVID-19 which, it warns, would have ‘...
Disruption of childhood vaccination in South Asia poses an urgent threat to children’s health – UNICEF
An Auxiliary Nurse Midwife administers polio drops and vaccination to pregnant women and children at an Angnawadi (rural care...
Protect workers during and after lockdowns, urges UN labour agency
Marking the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has urged States to take action to prevent and control COVID-19 in the workplace.
From bustling streets to lockdown: Bangladesh and the UN mobilize to fight COVID-19: a UN Resident Coordinator blog
The UN is working closely with the authorities, civil society and the private sector in Bangladesh, as the south Asian country braces for the COVID-19 pandemic. By the UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh, Mia Seppo.
‘No evidence’ that recovered COVID-19 patients cannot be reinfected, says WHO
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that there is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.
