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UN: ‘Unprecedented’ financing needed to halt recession of ‘unparalleled proportions’

“By all measures, we are in a recession of unparalleled proportions”, Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed told delegates gathered by webcast for an informal meeting of the Council’s Financing for Develop...

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ServiceNow expands partner programmes to help orgs adjust to the new normal

ServiceNow has announced expanded partner programmes and industry-aligned solutions. These programmes will empower its Global Partner Ecosystem to grow with ServiceNow and accelerate customers’ digital transfor...

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McAfee reports sharp rise in attacks on corporate cloud accounts amid Covid-19

McAfee has released a new research study titled Cloud Adoption and Risk Report, Work-from-Home Edition. The report uncovers a correlation between the increased use of cloud services and collaboration tools, suc...

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WHO: 120 candidate vaccines currently mapped as COVID-19 research accelerates

Since the start of the pandemic, there has been an urgent need to accelerate the research and development of COVID-19 candidate vaccines. Under the umbrella of the Global Research Roadmap, the WHO Working Group...

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UN Tourism Organization: World slowly starts travelling again

In the fourth edition of its COVID-19 Travel Restrictions:  A Global Review for Tourism, the UN specialized agency reviews measures of 217 destinations worldwide, as of 18 May.  The report finds that 3 per cent...

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Central and South America now ‘intense zones’ for COVID-19 transmission

Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO Executive Director, was speaking to journalists listening in to the UN agency’s regular virtual update on the pandemic. He reported that the Americas are home to five of the 10 countries w...

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COVID-19 significantly impacts health services for noncommunicable diseases

GENEVA – Prevention and treatment services for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have been severely disrupted since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to a WHO survey released today. The survey, which w...

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UN: From fighting with guns to fighting the pandemic

“Before I did not have a trade but, thanks to this training, I am becoming a valuable asset to my country”, says Nassira Zakaria, from Kaga Bandoro, a northern market town in the Central African Rep...

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UN: Countries support ‘one-stop shop’ to share science and research

They have signed up to support the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP), a “one-stop shop” for sharing scientific knowledge, data and intellectual property in efforts to beat back the disease. “Tools to prev...

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WHO: 30 countries have signed up to support the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool

Thirty countries and multiple international partners and institutions have signed up to support the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) an initiative aimed at making vaccines, tests, treatments and other he...