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18/07/2021 07:02 GMT+7
HCM City tightens management in quarantine areas to limit cross-infection of COVID-19
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam requested Ho Chi Minh City continue to tighten management to prevent cross-infection of COVID-19 in quarantine and sealed-off areas at an online briefing of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on July 17.
Dam, who is also head of the committee, urged the city to strengthen transport of newly-infectious cases to treatment facilities, especially those with worsening symptoms.
HCM City needs to ensure the supply of essential goods and food to stabilise people s lives and encourage people to share the immediate difficulties to strictly comply with social distancing regulations, he added
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The United Nations chief warned Friday that a “hurricane of humanitarian crises” around the world has left civilians in conflict areas paying the highest price and is compounded by a relentless wave of attacks on humanitarian and medical workers.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said humanitarian needs are outpacing the ability of the United Nations and aid organizations to meet them, “turbocharged by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“We are in uncharted waters,” he said in a speech to the U.N. Security Council read by Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed.
“The sheer scale of humanitarian needs have never been greater,” Guterres said. “The United Nations and our partners are seeking to reach 160 million people with assistance this year the highest figure ever.”
The sheer scale of humanitarian needs have never been greater, Mr Guterres said. The United Nations and our partners are seeking to reach 160 million people with assistance this year - the highest figure ever.
He cited Ethiopia s Tigray region, Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria as examples of the bloody surge in humanitarian crises.
From Tigray, he said, the UN has heard credible reports in the past few months of executions of civilians, arbitrary arrests and detentions, sexual violence against children and forced displacement on a massive scale. In Afghanistan, brutal attacks killed at least 24 civilians, including five health workers, during just one week in June, he said.
Targeted Aid Organizations Call for Protection
Voice of America
17 Jul 2021, 07:35 GMT+10
Providers of humanitarian aid called on the U.N. Security Council Friday to support their work to reach millions in need, as they and their operations increasingly become targets of violence and attacks. One hundred-ninety-one humanitarian workers have been killed, injured or kidnapped since the beginning of this year. Many of them are national workers who are more exposed to risks, as they are intervening on the frontlines, Lucile Grosjean, Advocacy Director for the international NGO Action Against Hunger told the council. Our appeal is clear: the Security Council must move to act and put an end to this deadly spiral.