"HEALTH"

“We're in a phase of preparedness for a potential pandemic,” the officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday at a press briefing in Geneva, in their update on the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus. WHO

While the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the COVID-19 outbreak should not be described as a pandemic because it is not spreading uncontrollably, UN Secretary-General today urged all countries to “do everything” to contain the disease. UNTV CH

People’s basic human rights are “under assault”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday, as he launched a Call For Action’’ aimed at boosting equality and reducing suffering everywhere. UNTV CH

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov called for “an immediate stop to the firing of rockets and mortars that only risk dragging Gaza into another round of hostilities with no end in sight.” UNIFEED

Around a million civilians in northwest Syria could face “a real bloodbath, a real massacre” amid an ongoing push by Government forces in the country’s last opposition-held region, a senior UN humanitarian warned on Monday. UNTV CH

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “We're concerned about the number of cases with no clear epidemiological link such as travel history to China or contact with a confirmed case.” WHO

Deadly attacks on villages in Burkina Faso have forced 150,000 people to flee in the last three weeks alone, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Friday, warning of a displacement emergency in the wider Sahel region. UNTV CH

The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that the international community “need to finance simple public health solutions that can help us to contain the outbreak now, but at the same time prepare for any eventualities by investing in the vaccine.” WHO

The UN remains "very alarmed about the safety and protection of over three million civilians in Idlib and its surrounding areas in northwestern Syria,” the United Nations spokesperson told reporters in New York on Thursday, as reports of airstrikes and shelling “continue to take a heavy toll on the civilian population.” UNIFEED

Following the release of a landmark report by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and The Lancet on children’s health, WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said, “The health of children everywhere is at risk. We can do more, and we must do more. Our children, our young people, deserve better.” WHO