UNICEF

UNICEF to stock half billion syringes prior to arrival of COVID-19 vaccine

Representative Image NEW DELHI: United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has said that it will stockpile around 520 million…

4 years ago

COVID-19 spread faster as billions unable to access water to wash hands: UN

Representative Image NEW DELHI: A serious shortage of household water affecting two out of five people around the world is…

4 years ago

Jharkhand, UNICEF launch SOPs on school preparedness

Representative Image RANCHI: With the spread of COVID-19, over 3500 schools in Jharkhand were utilized as quarantine centres and health…

4 years ago

Mortality rate in children to shoot up due to the pandemic: UNICEF

Representative Image NEW DELHI: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that the COVID-19 pandemic is shadowed by another crisis as…

5 years ago

10m Indonesian children at risk from air pollution due to forest fires

Representative Image JAKARTA: UNICEF recently revealed that wild forest and peatland fires across Kalimantan and Sumatra in Indonesia are putting…

5 years ago

Obesity on rise in India while undernourishment declines: UN

Representative Image GENEVA: The United Nations (UN) recently released a report titled ‘State of Food Security and Nutrition in the…

5 years ago

Over 19 million children are vulnerable to climate change effects in Bangladesh

Representative Image DHAKA: A United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report on April 8, 2019, said that lives and futures of…

6 years ago

Centre to launch National Disaster Database

NEW DELHI: With an aim to develop a uniform and credible national-level disaster database, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) conducted…

6 years ago