UN Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock today released US$15 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to help fund global efforts to contain the COVID-19 virus. The announcement came as the World Health Organization (WHO) upgraded the global risk of the coronavirus outbreak to “very high” – its top level of risk assessment. […]
More than 10 percent of the country’s population faces restrictions on how often they can leave their homes. READ UPDATES IN CHINESE: 新冠病毒疫情最新消息汇总 Here’s what you need to know: Half of China’s population is facing new travel restrictions. Japan announced 88 more cruise ship cases. Britain prepares to evacuate citizens from cruise ship. The new […]
A whopping 22 million people would be displaced by December 31, 2019, due to extreme weather events. That is according to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) State of Global Climate 2019 released at the Conference of Parties 25 (CoP 25) in Madrid on December 3, 2019. “The number of new displacements associated with weather extremes could more than […]
New Delhi(CNN)About 500,000 people have been evacuated from Bangladesh’s coastal region, as the nation waits for Cyclone Bulbul to hit on Saturday evening — according to the country’s disaster management minister. The cyclone was more than 124 miles (200 kilometres) away from the Bangladesh coast and moving at a speed of 15-20 km/h, Enamur Rahman […]
