please write an essay on covid 19 –a pandemic in 100–150 words. I will mark it as brainliest answer.
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The COVID-19 pandemic poses an extraordinary challenge to the world. Currently affecting more than 200 countries and territories, the virus has upended the lives of children and their families everywhere, placing a huge strain on often already overburdened health and education systems.
UNICEF is working with governments, partners and businesses to provide access to life -saving supplies including personal protective equipment for front line health workers to protect children and families.
Among the around 40 countries across the globe UNICEF has reached with supplies so far are:
On 16 April, UNICEF received a delivery in Abuja of supplies to support the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, including test kits, personal protective equipment (PPE), and other essential health supplies, including routine vaccines for children. The PPE will help protect medical personnel and ancillary staff who are the first responders on the front line, providing care and treatment to those affected by the virus.
Hygiene, disinfection, cleaning and personal protection items have been distributed to support the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador.
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UNICEF is providing disinfection, cleaning and personal protection supplies to the Government and partners in El Salvador to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The novel coronavirus pandemic, known as Covid-19, could not have been more predictable. From my own reporting, I knew this first-hand. In October 2019, I attended a simulation involving a fictional pandemic, caused by a novel coronavirus, that killed 65 million people, and in the spring of 2017 I wrote a feature story for TIME magazine on the subject. The magazine cover read: “Warning: the world is not ready for another pandemic”.
There was little special about my insight. Over the past 15 years, there has been no shortage of articles and white papers issuing dire warnings that a global pandemic involving a new respiratory disease was only a matter of time. On BBC Future in 2018, we reported that experts believed a flu pandemic was only a matter of time and that there could be millions of undiscovered viruses in the world, with one expert telling us, “I think the chances that the next pandemic will be caused by a novel virus are quite good.” In 2019, US President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services carried out a pandemic exercise named “Crimson Contagion”, which imagined a flu pandemic starting in China and spreading around the world. The simulation predicted that 586,000 people would die in the US alone. If the most pessimistic estimates about Covid-19 come true, the far better named “Crimson Contagion” will seem like a day in the park.
As of 26 March, there were more than 470,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 around the world and more than 20,000 deaths, touching every continent save Antarctica. This was a pandemic, in reality, well before the World Health Organization finally declared it one on 11 March. And we should have seen it coming.
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