Nearly every country on earth has now reported cases of COVID-19. In fact, the world is approaching the one million mark of reported cases of COVID-19. However, it is important to note that the impact of the new coronavirus pandemic...
Humanitarian organizations already have their hands full Even before COVID-19 spread across the world to become a global pandemic, conflicts, crises and natural disasters were taxing the global humanitarian organizations. International Non-Governmental Organizations. INGOs were stretched thin, providing emergency relief...
The coronavirus pandemic could have major implications for global development. As of now, most of the countries that have been hit hardest by COVID-19 are higher income countries; places like Italy, South Korea, and the United States. According to the...
The United Nations Secretary General says that the UN is “open for business,” despite an order that all non-essential staff work remotely. “Our work will be done from different locations, using different technologies,” said Antonio Guterres as he issued an...
On Monday, March 2 the director-general of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was giving his 22nd press conference on the coronavirus in nearly as many days. The news of the day was grim. The outbreak was spreading fast...
According to the latest data from the World Health Organization, the Coronavirus outbreak, known as COVID-19, has spread to over 60 countries. Over 88,000 people have been sickened and over 3,000 have died from the novel coronavirus. The number of...
Coronavirus Outbreak One of the fastest moving global news stories of early 2020 has been the spread of the coronavirus. Sourced back to Wuhan, China, the virus has reached over 7,000 confirmed cases worldwide according to the latest data from...