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Executive Secretary Armida Alisjahbana (left) with other participants at the 76th session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok.

A 6-month-old baby receives a delayed vaccine shot at a community health centre in Beijing, China.

During the coronavirus pandemic, mental health tips are being disseminated to children and families in the Rongwai community in Bangkok, Thailand.

Nurses are wearing masks and gloves to protect against the Coronavirus, in the health center of Port Bouet, a suburb of Abidjan, in the South of Côte d'Ivoire.

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.

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 response to the crisis.

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.

“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.

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 ‘devastating consequences’ for those who have been displaced.

An Auxiliary Nurse Midwife administers polio drops and vaccination to pregnant women and children at an Angnawadi (rural care center) in India.