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Launching a new report on zoonotic diseases, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Andersen, said, “we were warned that the current pandemic was not a matter of if but when. And it is a human failing that we predict, but we do not prepare.” UNIFEED

Uganda has offered safe haven to thousands of people fleeing escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They have been stranded in a remote, inaccessible area since late May, unable to cross due to a COVID-19 lockdown restricting movement in and out of the country. UNHCR

Echoing Secretary-General Antonio Guterres call for a worldwide ceasefire to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution demanding “a general and immediate cessation of hostilities in all situations, on its agenda.” UNIFEED

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus told reporters that “more than 10.3 million cases of COVID-19 have now been reported to WHO, and more than 506,000 deaths,” with 60 percent of those cases reported in the past month. WHO

Opening the 44th session of the Human Rights Council today in Geneva, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet compared COVID-19 to “a heat-seeking device that exposes, and is fuelled by, systemic failures to uphold human rights”, and called for “strong, transformative measures to heighten the powerful protections that human rights based-policies can provide.” UNTV CH

The progress made in testing COVID-19 samples at Somalia’s primary reference laboratory was hailed as critical to the Somali response to the coronavirus pandemic by the United Nations envoy to the country – and with an important role to play in its future. UNSOM

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced a massive rise in the number of hungry people it plans to assist around the world, as the devastating socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic push millions more people into food insecurity in low- and middle-income countries. WFP

Syrian communities devastated by years of civil war now face an “unprecedented” hunger crisis, just as urgent action is needed to prevent COVID-19 from spreading, UN humanitarians said today. UNTV CH

After nearly two years and 2,280 deaths, the world’s second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is finally over, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. WHO

WHO’s Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, noted that a total of 10 million COVID-19 cases will be reached within the next week, “a sober reminder that even as we continue research into vaccines and therapeutics, we have an urgent responsibility to do everything we can with the tools we have now to suppress transmission and save lives."