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Ambassador José Singer of the Dominican Republic, President of the Security Council for the month of April, announced that the Council will begin holding open briefings via video teleconference (VTC), including a meeting on the issue of COVID-19, currently under discussion. UNIFEED

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus today said that as the world enters the fourth month since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he is deeply concerned about the rapid escalation and global spread of infection. WHO

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said it was working with the hospital at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan to educate refugees about COVID-19 as it prepares for a possible outbreak. UNHCR

A weekly market at Sakure, along the border between South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is closed as the South Sudanese Government’s effort to mitigate the global threat posed by COVID-19. UNMISS

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched on Tuesday a new plan to counter the potentially devastating socio-economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, calling for a “shared responsibility and global solidarity in response to the impacts of COVID-19.” UNIFEED

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s battered healthcare system needs urgent support as it struggles with measles and cholera epidemics that kill thousands of children, as well as the mounting threat from the coronavirus, COVID-19, says UNICEF. UNICEF

As the world deals with the Covid-19 pandemic, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) is making preparations to ensure the refugee population in Lebanon is equipped to deal with an outbreak. UNHCR

As COVID-19 continues its advance towards vulnerable population hotspots including in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya and Syria, UN aid agencies on Tuesday insisted that they are working tirelessly to get aid to where it is needed most, while preventing the spread of infection. UNTV CH

Europe is headed in to a significant economic downturn of up to negative three percent per month due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Poul Thomsen, Director of the European Department at the IMF, said in Washington, DC today. IMF