{"id":21156,"date":"2020-09-16T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=21156"},"modified":"2020-09-16T19:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:48:36","slug":"un-comprehensive-response-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=21156","title":{"rendered":"UN comprehensive response to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ashraf AboArafe<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the course of 2020, COVID-19, has taken more than 900,000 lives, infected more than 27 million people. This updated report provides an overview of the data, analysis, policy recommendations and concrete support that the UN has made available to states and communities to cope with the health, socio-economic, humanitarian and human rights impacts of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

The update includes new data on how the virus has affected economies and societies, and summaries of the twenty policy briefs the SG has issued with analysis of their impact. It outlines the steps needed to save lives, protect societies and recover better, leaving no one behind and addressing the fragilities and gaps that made us so vulnerable in the first place. It points the way towards addressing future shocks \u2013 above all from climate change \u2013 and overcoming the systemic inequalities that have been exposed and exacerbated by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

KEY MESSAGES<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The pandemic is more than a health crisis, it is a human crisis that has laid bare severe and systemic inequalities.<\/b>\u00a0 No country has been spared. No population group remains unscathed. Nobody is immune to its impacts.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0COVID-19 has upended the global economy and cast a dark shadow across our future.<\/b>\u00a0The global economy may contract by around 5% this year. Up to 100 million people could be pushed back into extreme poverty. Gains on gender equality risk being reversed by decades. Global human development is set to drop for the first time since measuring began in 1990.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The UN is pursuing a\u00a0<\/b>three-point response:<\/span><\/b>\u00a0A health response\u00a0<\/span>to save lives; the adoption of policies to\u00a0safeguard lives and livelihoods\u00a0protect societies; a recovery process that leaves no-one behind, leading to a\u00a0fairer, more resilient and sustainable post-COVID world<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The UN system mobilized early and comprehensively.<\/b>\u00a0It led on the global health response, provided life-saving humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable, established instruments for rapid responses to the socio-economic impact, and laid out a broad policy agenda.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The world is still in the acute phase of the pandemic.<\/b>\u00a0Overcoming it requires sustained political leadership, unprecedented levels of funding, and extraordinary solidarity between and within countries.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The world needs the biggest public health effort in human history.<\/b>\u00a0We need a vaccine, diagnostics and treatment that are for everyone, everywhere.\u00a0A COVID-19 vaccine must be seen as a\u00a0global public good.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We cannot postpone climate action because climate change is not on hold.<\/b>\u00a0Addressing climate change and COVID-19 simultaneously and at enough scale requires a response stronger than any seen before to safeguard lives and livelihoods.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We must reset and strengthen the struc\u00adtures for cooperating globally<\/b>\u00a0so that we are better prepared for the next such crisis.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is vital to strengthen pandemic preparedness, management and response.\u00a0<\/b>Unless countries take steps to curb zoonotic contagions, pandemics will become more common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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