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© FAO/Max Valencia The Lo Valledor main wholesale market in Chile continues to provide the public during the COVID-19 pandemic with all the protective measures for them and the community.         23 July 2020 Health COVID-19 cases worldwide have surpassed 15 million, and nearly 620,000 deaths. On Thursday, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) urged people everywhere to play a part in preventing further spread of the disease, warning that there will be no return to “the old normal”. Most cases, or 10 million, were in just 10 countries, with the United States, Brazil and India accounting for nearly half. On Thursday afternoon, the US passed the milestone of four million infections. Life-and-death decisions “We’re asking everyone to treat the decisions about where they go, what they do, and who they meet with, as life-and-death decisions – because they are”,  said   WHO  chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking from Gene

© UNICEF Jabra is seven years old, she lives in Sana, Yemen. She is learning the correct way to wash her hands and how to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.         25 June 2020 Humanitarian Aid Millions of children in the heart of the world’s worst humanitarian disaster could be pushed to the brink of starvation, due to huge shortfalls in humanitarian aid funding amid the coronavirus pandemic, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.  Marking more than five years since conflict escalated in the country between Government forces and their allies, against Houthi rebel militias, the new  UNICEF  report warns the number of malnourished children could reach 2.4 million by end of year, almost half of all under-fives.  An additional 30,000 children could develop life-threatening severe acute malnutrition over the next six months. Yemen five years on: Children , conflict and  COVID-19  warns that as Yemen’s devastated

WFP/Glory Ndaka Women queuing for food rations in Cameroon practice social distancing to help combat the spread of COVID-19.         24 June 2020 Economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is projected to be more gradual than previously forecast, according to a report published on Wednesday by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ). It estimates growth this year at -4.9 per cent, or nearly two percentage points below projections in April, indicating that the recession will be deeper and recovery slower. The latest  World Economic Outlook  is an update to data published two months ago. Subtitled  A Crisis Like No Other, An Uncertain Recovery , it warns that gains made over the past two decades in driving down extreme poverty could be in peril. A call for strong health systems The  IMF  explained that the report reflects “a higher-than-usual degree of uncertainty” around the projections, which are based on key assumptions a

25 May 2020 00Author: Murray Hiebert, Bower Group Asia COVID-19 has been tough on the health and economies of Southeast Asia, but the region’s fledgling quasi-democracies are also under threat. Efforts to control the virus are giving authoritarian rulers the perfect cover to adopt draconian levers to rein in their opponents and critics. ‘The authoritarian leaders of Cambodia and the Philippines certainly rode the COVID-19 wave to their advantage in accruing political power and controls, while Thailand and Myanmar are poised to lean in further if they determine the political situation requires it’, says Phil Robertson, Human Rights Watch’s deputy director in Asia. In Thailand, Prayut Chan-o-cha — a general who seized power in a 2014 coup and then became prime minister through  carefully orchestrated elections  in 2019 — took advantage of an existing emergency decree to impose  sweeping control measures  in March. As COVID-19 continues to spread, the control measures grant him the author

UN helps Pacific prepare for COVID-19 pandemic, warns that children are ‘hidden victims’ World Bank/Tom Perry A young boy holds a chicken in Taremb, Malekula Island, Vanuatu.         30 March 2020 Health United Nations agencies are working together to provide vital support to Pacific Island countries as they rally to combat COVID-19 outbreaks across the region.  UNICEF Pacific @UNICEFPacific Since the outbreak of # COVID19 , UNICEF has been supporting Pacific Island governments to help communities prepare and respond to the threat faced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more: https://www. unicef.org/pacificislands /press-releases/unicef-supports-pacific-island-countries-protect-communities-against-covid-19  … 17 8:56 AM - Mar 30, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy See UNICEF Pacific's other Tweets The UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) and the World Health Organization ( WHO ) have been busy providing vital supplies to Pacific Island governments, including more than 170,000 essential medica