Report

Impact of COVID-19 on Children in the Middle East and North Africa

Factsheet - November 2020

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UNICEF/Lebanon/2020/Choufany

Highlights

UNICEF with partners conducted telephone surveys covering nearly 7,000 households in seven countries in the Middle East and North Africa to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on children in the region.

Around 95 % of the respondents stated that their children were negatively affected by the consequences of the pandemic.

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