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Video: Update on the current status of Covid-19 in Afghanistan

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Video: Update on the current status of Covid-19 in Afghanistan

While infection rates in Afghanistan at first appeared meagre in comparison to other States, the month of May saw an eight to ten-fold increase in confirmed cases of Covid-19. Areas facing the highest infection rates remain population centres such as Kabul and Herat, as well as communities living towards the western border with Iran. An article in Le Monde newspaper one week ago carried a…

Fighting Covid-19 with Myanmar refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border

Who could have supported ACTED Covid-19 home-visit interventions in refugee camps better than the residents themselves? To prevent the virus…

ACTED supports flood hit communities in Aden and Al Dhale’e

At the end of March, followed by months of drought, flash floods hit Yemen. Rivers soon burst their banks, inundating…

Helping IDPs in the Philippines access vital information on Covid-19

On March 8, 2020, the Filipino government declared the State of Public Health Emergency to address the emergence of Covid-19.…

Raising awareness to fight Covid-19 in Haiti

As of May 5, 88 cases of Covid-19 and 9 deaths have been confirmed in Haiti; and the number of…