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UNICEF Belize: Fast Facts

August 2020

UNICEF Belize: close-up image of teenage girl wearing a mask.
UNICEF Belize/2020

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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF has been working in Belize both to reduce COVID-19 transmission and mortality through Belize’s public health response, and to mitigate the socioeconomic impacts on children and families, especially the most vulnerable.

Our Fast Facts highlight the ways UNICEF has been supporting Belize to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19
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Belize
Latin America and the Caribbean

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