{"id":30,"date":"2020-05-11T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unhcrr.info\/?p=30"},"modified":"2025-05-28T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:04:11","slug":"unhcr-global-covid-19-emergency-response-11-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhcr.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/11\/unhcr-global-covid-19-emergency-response-11-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"UNHCR Global COVID-19 Emergency Response, 11 May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As of 10 May, over 3.8 million COVID-19 cases have been confirmed, with the United States and European countries most affected. Several country operations have reported cases of COVID-19 among persons of concern, but so far, the number of cases remains low with no reported sustained transmission in high-density refugee or internally displaced areas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Last week, over 1 million masks were delivered to Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Greece and Iran, while a shipment to DRC is expected this week. One million pairs of gloves are ready for shipping to Djibouti, Chad and Cameroon. UNHCR organized airlifts to Bangladesh, Greece,<br>Kenya, Uganda and Iran, with a total of over 6 tons of personal protective equipment and medical supplies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On 7 May, the first revision to the COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan was launched, with briefings from UNHCR, OCHA, WHO, WFP and Oxfam principals, seeking USD 6.7 billion through December 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UNHCR joined WHO and other key agencies in drafting the IASC Interim Guidance on Public Health and Social Measures for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response in Low Capacity and Humanitarian Settings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Together with several organisations, UNHCR developed the IASC Interim Technical Note on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) during COVID-19 Response.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,8,2,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights-for-refugees-news","category-humanitarian-news","category-protection-news","category-refugees-news","category-relief-news","category-un-news","category-unhcr-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhcr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhcr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhcr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhcr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhcr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rhcr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/rhcr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhcr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhcr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhcr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhcr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}