Article: What is the Humanitarian Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Publication language
English
Pages
1pp
Date published
17 Sep 2020
Type
Articles
Keywords
Development & humanitarian aid, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, COVID-19, Epidemics & pandemics, Impact assessment, humanitarian action, Humanitarian Principles
Organisations
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Link
https://www.icrc.org/en/document/what-humanitarian-impact-covid-19-pandemic

On 15 September, ICRC Africa deputy regional director Linh Schroeder gave evidence to the UK International Development Committee as part of a panel of humanitarians. Linh was joined by Selena Victor, Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy at Mercy Corps and Kate White, Medical Emergency Manager and Covid-19 medical technical lead for Medecins Sans Frontieres, to answer MP's questions on how Coronavirus is impacting humanitarian operations.