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Despite last year’s UN call for global ceasefires to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, many conflicts never stopped, including in Syria, Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), and new ones erupted making it more difficult to control the spread of the virus and care for infected people in many countries, UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock said on Tuesday.
At a virtual UN Security Council meeting on civilians caught in conflict, Lowcock said that there is a link between conflict, COVID-19 and healthcare.
In March last year, as the pandemic was starting to circle the globe, UN Secretary-General
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