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Up to 50,000 low-income families with young children in Tajikistan will receive a one-time payment of 500 Tajik somoni as emergency social assistance. These payments are provided as part of the World Bank-financed Tajikistan Emergency COVID-19 Project (TEC-19), which is supporting Tajikistan’s efforts in responding to the health and social risks associated with the global COVID-19 pandemic.

China’s capital imposed new coronavirus restrictions Wednesday to try to control a new outbreak, while Brazil reported a record daily increase in confirmed cases and the number of deaths in the United States surpassed those the country suffered in World War One.

The largest market in Mozambique's capital, Maputo city, remains closed Tuesday, the second day of a three-day sanitizing and reorganization to fight the spread of the coronavirus.

Doctor taking temperature to a family of returnees quarantined in temporary shelter in Venezuela.

COVID-related travel restrictions is worsening the plight of seafarers by the day.

A woman carries sacks of seeds distributed to families in South Sudan during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A recent UNICEF poll among youth in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that only a third of the respondents chose all correct answers when asked how COVID-19 is transmitted.

A midwife performs house calls in a conflict-affected village in Yemen. Maternal health services are being rolled back amid funding shortages.

As the world continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the main task for everyone is to save lives and contain and mitigate this pandemic. The European Union continues to support the WHO in this regard and has already provided additional funding.

Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year according to the World Health Organization.