Urgent action needed to safeguard futures of 600 million South Asian children threatened by COVID-19: UNICEF
GENEVA/KATHMANDU/NEW YORK, 23 JUNE 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic is unravelling decades of health, education and other advances for children across South Asia, and governments must take urgent action to prevent millions of families from slipping back into poverty, UNICEF said in a new report released today. With the pandemic expanding rapidly…, Geneva Palais Briefing on Lives Upended, GENEVA/KATHMANDU, 23 June 2020 - This is a summary of what was said by Report author Simon Ingram and UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia Jean Gough – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Simon Ingram: "With COVID-19 infections surging across much of South Asia, there could not…