The United Nations just recently launched a US$2 billion coordinated global humanitarian response plan
https://www.unocha.org/…/Global-Humanitarian-Response-Plan
to fight COVID-19 in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries in a bid to protect millions of people and stop the virus from circling back around the globe.
COVID-19 has a foothold across the globe and is now reaching countries that were already facing humanitarian crisis because of conflict, natural disasters and climate change.
The COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan will be implemented by UN agencies, with international NGOs and NGO consortiums playing a direct role in the response (in 51 countries including 13 LLDCS namely Afghanistan, Bolivia, Paraguay, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia).
It will:
• deliver essential laboratory equipment to test for the virus, and medical supplies to treat people;
• install handwashing stations in camps and settlements;
• launch public information campaigns on how to protect yourself and others from the virus; and
• establish airbridges and hubs across Africa, Asia and Latin America to move humanitarian workers and supplies to where they are needed most.
(https://www.unocha.org/…/un-issues-2-billion-appeal-combat)
At the WHO official site (https://www.who.int/emergen…/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019) the COVID-19 outbreak situation is updated as 416,686 confirmed cases and 18,589 deaths in 197 countries and territories globally as of 26 March 2020, 04:34 GMT+8.
The COVID-19 situation in LLDCs are summarized as below based on the WHO situation report
https://www.who.int/…/novel-coronavirus-…/situation-reports. Out of 32 LLDCs 25 countries have reported 2117 lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases in their countries and 11 LLDCs reported 28 death cases.
By Ms. J.Enkhtuul
Researcher
International Think Tank for LLDCs