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UNICEF Spain has donated 418,000 face masks to the Government of Spain in support of the national response on COVID-19. The masks are in addition to the medical supplies that UNICEF Spain donated over the past few weeks, which included 1,050,000 gloves, 100,000 virus detection kits, 1,000 sets of personal protective equipment (PPE) and 97,000 units of hand sanitizer.

“As COVID-19 continues to spread globally, over 117 million children in 37 countries may miss out on receiving life-saving measles vaccine. Measles immunization campaigns in 24 countries have already been delayed; more will be postponed.

“Hundreds of thousands of children currently detained in countries around the world are at grave risk of contracting COVID-19.

Economic duress is compounding the impact of conflict in Syria, even before the COVID-19 pandemic touched the country.

“The world is currently united in a shared struggle against an invisible enemy. But while our eyes are firmly focused on how to avoid or treat COVID-19, the serious consequences that will challenge us far beyond the current pandemic – the hidden impacts – are not yet front of mind. This must change.

A shipment managed by UNICEF of approximately 90 tons of vital supplies arrived in Caracas on April 08, 2020. The shipment includes Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits for health workers on the frontline in the battle against COVID-19.

Two boys walk to their settlements in Hadhwe sub-district, Ethiopia.

Warehouse staff prepares to UNICEF supplies to be delivered and distributed to health centres across Lebanon.

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, South Asia had a chronic education crisis with 95 million children of school age being out of school. With the current COVID-19 crisis unfolding, many of the 430 million children affected by school closures in the region are now in danger of dropping out of the education system.

A UNICEF shipment of 7.5 tons of vital health supplies is arriving in Bamako, Mali on a Danish flight of April 04, 2020, co-financed between the European Union (EU) and the Government of Denmark.