COVAX

A UN staff member in Benin receives the COVID-19 vaccine in the capital Cotonou.
UNICEF/Yannick Folly

COVID-19 vaccine shipments boost for Africa 

29 July 2021
Health

After a near-halt of COVID-19 vaccine shipments in Africa, delivers have ramped up in recent months, the UN health agency said on Thursday. 

COVID-19 patients receive oxygen at a place of worship in Ghaziabad, India.
© UNICEF/Amarjeet Singh

UN chief appeals to business leaders to help quell ‘a tsunami of suffering’ caused by COVID 

27 May 2021
Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought “a tsunami of suffering”, taken over 3.4 million lives and 500 million jobs, while wiping trillions of dollars from global balance sheets, Secretary-General António Guterres told business leaders on Thursday, appealing for equitable vaccine distribution worldwide. 

A mother and a doctor tend a girl with COVID-19 at an intensive care ward, in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
© UNICEF/Evgeniy Maloletka

‘Constellation’ of post-COVID symptoms will impact global healthcare, says WHO 

12 February 2021
Health

Far more research is needed into the “constellation” of sometimes debilitating symptoms among people who’ve recovered from COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, adding that it “will impact” global health systems.