UN's Ebola mission threatened by mobs in Congo
The World Health Organization transferred 49 out of 120 people working in Ebola hotspots in the city of Beni, North Kivu, after mobs threatened the camp, demanding better action from the UN mission regarding the Ebola outbreak, which has killed 5000 people to date. The UN camp has been re-stationed to a base near the airport following this development.
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The UN Labor agency released data related to global working hours in the second quarter of 2020, The pandemic is expected to have resulted in a 14% drop in global working hours in the second quarter of 2020, the International Labour Organization has said. The United Nations’ labor agency said this updated fall in working hours was the equivalent of 400 million full-time job losses globally in the second quarter
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Coronavirus “unleashing a human development crisis”, says UN
According to a report published by The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Coronavirus pandemic had a significant impact on the society as human development set to fall for the first time on record this year. “For vast swathes of the globe, the pandemic will leave deep, deep scars,” Achim Steiner, the UNDP’s administrator, said in the report
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Global Tourism Industry struggling for survival
Global Tourism Industry struggling for survival
COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on travel, with the UN World Tourism Organization estimating that international tourism could decline by up to 80% this year over 2019. Countries are now planning for the future for the survival of tourism. New Zealand and Australia have committed to creating a "travel bubble" allowing visits between the two countries. Vietnam and Thailand could look at creating a travel corridor between two countries
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India begins repatriation operation to bring back 200,000 citizens
India started a repatriation operation to ultimately bring back more than 200,000 Indians stranded in different parts of the world. More than 300 Indians arrived from Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Passengers arrived in Kerala and went into quarantine. Over the next week, more than 15,000 Indians are expected to return on different Air India flights. This would be India’s biggest evacuation mission since 1990 from Kuwait during the Gulf War
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