Good mental health is essential to adapting to the new ways of living and working triggered by the COVID-19 crisis. In a webinar on “Living the New Normal”, young people and senior officials talk about how youth can contribute to addressing the mental health effects of the coronavirus pandemic as the United Nations rallies support for a global response.
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Covid-19 is the official WHO name given to the novel coronavirus which broke out in late 2019 and began to spread in the early months of 2020.
The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
Below are stories from around the globe related to the 2020 outbreak of novel Coronavirus – since the WHO gave the Covid-19 naming. Most recent items are posted nearest the top.
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security.
At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; with the addition of South Sudan in 2011, membership is now 193, representing almost all of the world’s sovereign states.
