With the coronavirus pandemic threatening further suffering in countries already experiencing conflict in the Middle East, the United Nations is working to stop COVID-19 from taking hold in the war-ravaged region, where humanitarian needs are already enormous.
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- TEHRAN, 2 October 2020 (UNIC) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on the International Day of Non-Violence, 2 October 2020, called for ceasefire to focus on COVID-19.
- TEHRAN, 3 December 2020 (UNIC) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on the International Dah of Persons with Disabilities, 3 December 2020, called for an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post COVID-19 world for one billion persons living with disabilities.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2020, called for greater protection of journalists who are providing the “antidote” to what he characterized as a pandemic of misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 crisis.
- Thanks to the generous financial support of the Government of Japan, UNICEF was able to fly into Iran the fourth shipment of Covid-19 aid supplies from the UNICEF Global Supply Hub in Copenhagen containing 18.5 metric tons of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the country’s health personnel working tirelessly around the clock to treat Covid-19 patients in different provinces.
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Tehran, 15 November 2021 – This evening, a first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines landed at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, provided as part of the Humanitarian Buffer mechanism of the COVAX Facility to help the government vaccinate more refugees. A second shipment of the vaccine will land in the country on the 16, bringing the total number of vaccines provided through the international mechanism to 1,611,600 doses. Safety boxes and syringes for these vaccines will be shipped to the country separately.
- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on the International Day for Biological Diversity, 22 May 2020, said COVID-19 –which emanated from the wild -- has shown how human health is intimately connected with our relationship to the natural world.
- TEHRAN, 7 December 2020 (UNIC) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message on International Civil Aviation Day, 7 December 2020, called aviation as an important engine of the world that will play a critical role in lifting the world to recovery from COVID-19.