December 15, 2020

Teachers should be prioritised for Covid-19 vaccine: Unicef

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 15 December, 2020 UNB, Dhaka The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said teachers should be prioritised to receive the […]
November 23, 2020

Unicef says to ship two billion Covid vaccines to poor nations in 2021

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 23 November, 2020   Unicef said it was working with over 350 airlines and freight companies to deliver vaccines and […]
November 23, 2020

UNICEF says will ship 2 billion Covid-19 vaccines to developing nations next year

Published in: The Daily Star Date: 23 November, 2020 Thomson Reuters Foundation, London Nearly 2 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines will be shipped and flown to […]
November 19, 2020

UN recruits 40 airlines to deliver vaccine to poorest states (Unicef)

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 19 November, 2020   Unicef held call with carriers about mass airlift, IATA says. United Nations humanitarian relief agency Unicef […]
September 3, 2020

COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Centre opens for Bangladeshi communities and Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar (UNICEF)

UNICEF Bangladesh 31 August, 2020 UNICEF in partnership with icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh) is supporting a 200-bed isolation and treatment centre in […]
August 27, 2020

Worldwide, 463 mn children can’t access virtual schooling: UN

Published in: The Business Standard Date: 27 August, 2020 The UN estimates that 1.5 billion children worldwide have been affected by lockdowns or school closings occasioned […]
August 17, 2020

Youth volunteers bust COVID-19 myths and combat misinformation (UNICEF)

UNICEF Bangladesh 17 August, 2020 Trained by UNICEF on spotting social media misinformation, young volunteers save online users from misleading COVID-19 information During a pandemic, rumours, […]
August 12, 2020

Home education project reaches children in remote parts of Bangladesh (UNICEF)

UNICEF Bangladesh 12 August, 2020 UNICEF delivers pioneering initiative to provide home education in a remote part of Bangladesh A UNICEF-supported home learning initiative in the […]
August 6, 2020

24 million may drop out of school due to COVID-19 impact: U.N.

UNITED NATIONS, AUGUST 04, 2020 11:47 IST Girls and young women are likely to be disproportionately affected, it says Almost 24 million children are at risk of […]