The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has increasingly impacted UNFPA’s programming and service delivery as many countries have instituted international and domestic movement restrictions, curfews, social distancing, and closure of all but essential services and shops.

The upsurge in hostilities that began in mid-January in Marib, Al Jawf and Sana’a Governorates, continued into February; resulting in heavy displacement, spike in civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo remains in the grip of the world’s second largest Ebola epidemic on record, and among those most at risk are health workers.