COVID-19

10,000 Antigen rapid diagnostic COVID-19 tests were handed over to the Ministry of Health to help respond to the pandemic.

The PCR tests, along with kits for laboratory disposables to conduct these tests, as well as 58,000 pairs of boots and 58,000 pairs of gloves, funded from World Bank Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF), were handed over to the Ministry of Health.

The appeal is part of a US$6.4 billion global UNICEF emergency funding appeal, the biggest in history, to reach more than 190 million children impacted by humanitarian crises and the COVID-19 pandemic

The medicines, worth $100,000, are part of an EU funded project implemented by UNICEF to respond to COVID-19 crisis in the country in coordination with the Ministry of Health

The FPP2 Masks and protection coveralls, as part of a US$1million grant, were provided to the Kyrgyz Republic from the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (Insurance Window)

In a recently issued global factsheet, UNICEF also warns that unequal access to remote schooling amid COVID-19 threatens to deepen global learning crisis

Struggles of children left behind by migration at the time of COVID -19

Unequal access to remote schooling amid COVID-19 threatens to deepen global learning crisis—UNICEF

With 116 million expected births worldwide in the approximately 9 months since the COVID-19 pandemic was recognized, UNICEF calls on governments and donors to maintain lifesaving services for pregnant women and newborns

Global coordination is urgently needed to prevent this health crisis from becoming a child-rights crisis.