UN Agencies Provide Comprehensive Protection For Lebanese During COVID-19

As the pandemic penetrates more areas, what does serious work to contain it look like? That question is uppermost in the minds of public health and political leaders around the globe. For Lebanon, a relatively small country, it must look collaborative if the work is going to succeed.

“In Lebanon, this crisis comes at an already extraordinary difficult time economically, financially and socially,” said United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon ad interim, Claudio Cordone. The country already was reeling due to a serious economic and financial crisis, an ongoing refugee crisis, and persistent anti-government protests. Since it mobilized to stem the spread of COVID-19 on 18 March, Lebanon has closed its land borders, airport and seaports and shuttered all but essential businesses. The United Nations staff in Lebanon’s 26 entities have worked tirelessly alongside Lebanese authorities to deliver a coordinated and coherent response whose goal is ‘leave no one behind.....…..…………………………