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WHO: Equitable, Global Distribution of 2 Billion COVID-19 Vaccine Doses to Begin in 2021

Near­ly two bil­lion dos­es of COVID-19 vac­cines have been secured for equi­table dis­tri­b­u­tion in 2021 to the 190 coun­tries that have signed on to a World Health Orga­ni­za­­­tion-led part­ner­ship, accord­ing to a Fri­day announce­ment from the group.  Offi­cials from the

Conflict, floods and COVID-19 push South Sudanese into extreme hunger 

Dri­ven by inse­cu­ri­ty, the effects of COVID-19, an on-going eco­nom­ic cri­sis, and the impact of flood­ing on liveli­hoods, three UN agen­cies called on Fri­day for imme­di­ate human­i­tar­i­an access to east­ern South Sudan’s Pibor coun­ty, where peo­ple are fac­ing cat­a­stroph­ic lev­els of hunger.