Topic: Coronavirus
Only 34% of world’s refugee children attend secondary school: Report
Two-thirds of refugee children might never get to secondary school, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday, as it called for an international effort to confront "critically low" levels of school and university enrolment.
COVID 19 crisis: 4.1 billion lack social safety net
More than four billion people live without any welfare protection today to cushion them from crisis, ILO said.
WHO monitoring new coronavirus variant named ‘Mu’
The World Health Organization said that it has identified a new variant of the virus known as “Mu”
Covid vaccines needed for teachers, children to keep schools open: WHO, UNICEF
As the school year begins for millions of children in Europe and Central Asia, UN health and child experts on Monday issued a series of COVID-19 risk reduction measures to ensure that in-person lessons can go ahead, despite rising infection rates.
Vaccine inequity causes ‘dangerous divergence’ in COVID survival rates – UN agency heads
The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is progressing at “two alarmingly different speeds”, UN agency leaders said in a statement on Friday, noting that less than two per cent of adults are fully vaccinated in most low-income countries compared to almost 50 per cent in high-‑income nations.
Coming months critical for future pandemic preparedness: WHO chief
The next three months will be a critical period for stepping up global collective action against future pandemics.
