BigstockCoronavirus has so far claimed over 10,000 lives worldwideThe International Organization for Migration (IOM) has scaled up its plans to address the mobility aspects of the global response to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) with a new funding requirement of $116.1 million. The Covid-19 outbreak – which is first and foremost a health crisis – is fast becoming the largest mobility crisis ever seen, the IOM said. As a result, some United Nations interventions, including refugee resettlement operations, have been scaled back or suspended temporarily. The geographic prioritization of the appeal is based on existing national and IOM capacities. The new appeal complements and is aligned with the WHO's Covid-19 Global Preparedness and Response Plan, issued on February 3, as well as the upcoming Inter-Agency Standing Committee Humanitarian Response Plan, led by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the press statement added.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 20, 2020 07:18 UTC