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UNMISS Medical Unit ramps up prevention measures and awareness-raising among its own peacekeepers to ensure safety of host populations and its own personnel. On this year’s World Health Day, the world faces an unprecedented…

UNMISS Medical Unit ramps up prevention measures and awareness-raising among its own peacekeepers to ensure safety of host populations and its own personnel. On this year’s World Health Day, the world faces an unprecedented…

The new coronavirus CANNOT be transmitted through mosquito bites. To date there has been no information nor evidence to suggest that the new coronavirus could be transmitted by mosquitoes.

Frequent hand washing and social distancing are the norms among peacekeepers and internally displaced people in Bor alike. Visits to the protection site have been banned to prevent COVID-19. Heeding the advice of health…

Bamako, 6 April 2020 – The United Nations in Mali through MINUSMA signed on Monday, April 6, with the Malian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs three (3) memoranda of understanding that will enable an integrated and rapid…

This morning, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Zahir Tanin, spoke by telephone with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. SRSG Tanin expressed the United Nations support for the efforts of…

Exposing yourself to the sun or to temperatures higher than 25C degrees DOES NOT prevent the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Colin Stewart, SRSG and Head of MINURSO Dear Colleagues, When the conflict in the Territory of Western Sahara started many years ago, landmines were buried. As a result, lives were lost and others were altered forever because…

UNMISS and humanitarian partners are focusing on raising awareness on essential preventative measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in Torit. In Torit, a town in eastern Equatoria, close to the border of Uganda, people…

Photo by Amin Ismail, UNAMID. Zalingei, 5 April: As part of UNAMID’s efforts to support the Sudanese health authorities in preventing and combating COVID-19, the Mission handed over Personnel Protection Equipment (PPE) to the…

5 April 2020, Pristina - In light of the measures taken to combat COVID-19 and the ongoing public health emergency, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Zahir Tanin, urgently calls upon all…

COVID-19 case confirmed in South Sudan Juba, South Sudan, 5 April 2020: The United Nations in South Sudan has confirmed a case of corona virus disease (COVID-19) among its staff. The Ministry of Health and the World Health…