COVID-19
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Asia Pacific
First Person: Panic as COVID-19 ‘tsunami’ hits India
A UN staff member in India has described the huge upsurge in COVID-19 infections in her country in recent days…
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Asia Pacific
UN providing equipment and supplies to help India fight rapid COVID-19 surge
The United Nations is supporting India as the country battles a major surge in COVID-19 cases which on Wednesday saw…
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Asia Pacific
Prioritize people and planet, UN chief urges Asian and Pacific nations
The UN Secretary-General on Monday called on Asian and Pacific countries not to base their pandemic recovery strategies on “outdated…
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Middle East
Iraq: UN representative calls for ‘stronger protection measures’ after fatal fire in COVID hospital
The UN Special Representative in Iraq expressed “shock and pain” on Sunday over a deadly accident that befell a COVID-19…
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Asia Pacific
Seeing health ‘opportunities’ in post-pandemic Papua New Guinea: a UN Resident Coordinator blog
The global COVID-19 pandemic could provide “opportunities” to improve health care in Papua New Guinea (PNG) after the crisis is…
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Middle East
Elections could pave way to Palestinian unity, advance peace: UN envoy
Expectations are high for the first Palestinian elections in 15 years, UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland told a virtual…
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Middle East
Syria receives first COVID-19 vaccines, for most vulnerable
More than 250,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Syria on Thursday from the UN-backed COVAX initiative, to inoculate the…
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Africa
Surviving a deadly outbreak of COVID-19 in a Lesotho convent
A 77-year old nun from the southern African country of Lesotho has been telling the UN how she survived a…
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Africa
Soaring food prices, conflicts driving hunger, rise across West and Central Africa: WFP
More than 31 million people across West and Central Africa may not have enough to eat in the coming months…
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Africa
First Person: A diabetes fighter in Eswatini pours all her efforts into beating COVID-19
Dumsile Mavuso, the founder and head of Eswatini’s first national association for people with diabetes, is now bringing her knowledge…
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