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11-Mar-2021

A look back at our UN News early pandemic coverage

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launches a COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan with Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock, WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

UN launches major humanitarian appeal to keep COVID-19 from ‘circling back around the globe’

25 March 2020
Humanitarian Aid
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres appeals for a global ceasefire in a virtual press conference broadcast on UN Web TV.
UN News/Daniel Dickinson

COVID-19: UN chief calls for global ceasefire to focus on ‘the true fight of our lives’

23 March 2020
Peace and Security
David Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan is interviewed on Radio Miraya by Lighthouse International Primary School student, Ayot Sandra Dominic. (June 2017)
UNMISS

Peacekeeping radio stations provide COVID-19 information to vulnerable communities in conflict-affected countries

27 March 2020
Health
Vulnerable people in developing countries like Bangladesh are expected to be hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
UNDP Bangladesh/Fahad Kaizer

COVID-19 pandemic exposes global ‘frailties and inequalities’: UN deputy chief

3 May 2020
SDGs
Podcast Cover Image for UN Secretary-General Messages on COVID-19
United Nations

Call for Global Ceasefire to Fight COVID-19

24 March 2020
COVID-19: Messages from the UN Secretary-General
Marie-Roseline Darnycka Bélizaire, an epidemiologiist with the World Health Organisation team tackling the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, travels by helicopter to Butembo in the east of the country.

Photo Story: Humanitarian ‘heroes’ on front line of COVID pandemic

A woman wears a medical mask in China. (file photo)
World Bank/Curt Carnemark

COVID-19 stoking xenophobia, hate and exclusion, minority rights expert warns

30 March 2020
Human Rights
At a health center on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela, a lack of spare parts has rendered mobile health units and ambulances unusable.
© UNICEF/Velasquez

Ease sanctions against countries fighting COVID-19: UN human rights chief

24 March 2020
Human Rights
As the COVID-19 spreads in the United States, an increasing number of New Yorkers appear to have started wearing face masks as a precaution against the virus.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

COVID-19: Mental health in the age of coronavirus

16 March 2020
Health
A young boy in Ethiopia attends class at home, taking lessons via the radio, which are being broadcast across the country.

Photo Story: Learning from the pandemic

The President of the UN General Assembly, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, takes part in a remote briefing to UN Member States on the coronavirus crisis.
United Nations/Reem Abaza

Critical work of UN ‘largely uninterrupted’, despite unprecedented challenge of COVID-19

27 March 2020
UN Affairs
UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the media on the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

UN launches COVID-19 plan that could ‘defeat the virus and build a better world’

31 March 2020
Health
Self-quarantined in Italians take a stand for solidarity.
© UNICEF/Giovanni Diffidenti

COVID-19: The ‘common enemy’ that can bring the world together

25 March 2020
Interviews
UN humanitarian agencies are expressing concern for the 100 million people living in war zones and other emergency settings who depended on the UN for assistance.
UNOCHA/Iason Athanasiadis

UN aid teams work round the clock amid COVID-19 pandemic to ensure humanitarian support to millions

20 March 2020
Health
Ambulances line up outside Bellevue Hospital in New York City as part of the coronavirus response.

Photo Story: US now the global epicentre of COVID-19 pandemic

A UN staff member sanitizes her hands at UN Headquarters in New York.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

COVID-19: UN ‘remains open for business’, determined to deliver for the people we serve, says UN chief

15 March 2020
Health
Staff of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Guangdong Medical University.
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Guangdong Medical University

Coronavirus necessitates global increase in protective equipment, medical supplies: UN health chief

30 March 2020
Health