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The ocean and COVID-19

For people on the front lines of climate change and conflict, COVID-19 is a new challenge

Kenya’s public minibuses helps drive the COVID-19 prevention message home

The coronavirus crisis is a crisis like no other, and for emerging market and developing economies, it has triggered a policy response like no other. This large group of countries have bolstered health services and extended unprecedented support to households, firms, and financial markets. While limited policy space has kept the response at a smaller magnitude than in advanced economies, some even managed to help other countries. The ’s&˛Ô˛ú˛ő±č; summarizes common threads to their COVID-19 responses.

has called for urgent and coordinated action to release the 150,000 to 200,000 seafarers trapped on board ships around the world because of measures to contain the COVID-19 virus.

Life during the COVID-19 pandemic is difficult for parents and children alike. provides the latest information of what parents need to know to prepare for school reopening.

In the most remote areas of Angola, the wave of coronavirus infections that has swept the world has not yet reached deep into the villages and farming communities. A new joint campaign launched by with the Ministry of Agriculture of Angola aims to keep it that way. In the country’s northern central region, a group of women farmers wear face masks and stand at least a metre apart. They are taking part in a training session on how to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Une fille tient un cartable dans les mains. En arrière-plan, la même fille porte une meule de foin.

The COVID-19 pandemic presents unprecedented risks to the rights and safety and development of children. World Day Against Child Labour 2020 focuses on the impact of crisis on child labour and calls upon countries and organizations to protect the most vulnerable during crisis management and recovery. On 12 June, the is organizing  an online to  stimulate dialogue on the importance of protecting children from child labour in COVID-19 response and recovery plans. !

A man among boxes in a warehouse.

As COVID-19 spreads to countries with poor health systems, the United Nations and its partners are racing against time to ensure that life-saving personal protective equipment and other supplies reach frontline health workers in need. The pandemic has disrupted all normal processes involved in transporting supplies. Disruptions to manufacturing in China fractured global supply chains, creating shortages as demand soared. Commercial flights were grounded, trade restrictions implemented, and market competition increased. These challenges create a whole new level of complexity.

People hanging information posters.

Last month, the world celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the eradication of smallpox. Many of the public health tools that were used successfully then are the same tools that have been used to respond to Ebola, and to COVID-19: disease surveillance, case finding, contact tracing, and mass communication campaigns to inform affected populations. To fight COVID-19, the United Nations and partners are drawing lessons from their response to past crises. Coordination and collaboration among UN entities, governments and the public are central to the current response.

Millions of lives must be saved in Yemen

Menstruation is misunderstood and stigmatized around the world, a fact likely to worsen under the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are you need to know about periods and the pandemic – and what the world needs to do about it.

Coronavirus puts 14 million people at risk in Latin America and the Caribbean

Bringing the classroom home in Pakistan

Since the COVID-19 outbreak was first reported in Wuhan, China in late December 2019, the disease has spread to more than 200 countries and territories. In the absence of a vaccine or effective treatment, governments worldwide have responded by implementing unprecedented containment and mitigation measures—. This in turn has resulted in large short-term economic losses, and a decline in global economic activity not seen since the Great Depression. Did it work?  analysis, based on a global sample, suggests that containment measures, by reducing mobility, have been very effective in flattening the “pandemic curve.”