The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on the Yazidi community in Sinjar district in north-west Iraq.
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Lebanon: MSF teams supporting health services in explosion aftermath in Beirut
On August 4, 2020, a powerful blast ripped through the port warehouses near central Beirut in Lebanon, after highly explosive material that was being stored there ignited. More than a hundred people were killed and nearly 5,000 thousand were injured. Two days later the death toll is still growing as more bodies are found under […]
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MSF & Sea-Watch announce collaboration to save lives at sea
MSF is to join Sea-Watch on board the Sea-Watch 4, a new ship bound for lifesaving operations in the Central Mediterranean Sea.
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Libya: ‘They were shot and killed as they ran to flee arbitrary detention’
Three people were shot dead and two were severely injured at the disembarkation site in Khoms on Tuesday night after being returned to Libya, the very same country they were trying to flee. Victims are aged between 15 and 18. This is yet another tragic development showing that migrants in Libya face life-threatening violence and […]
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Greece: MSF forced to close COVID-19 centre in Lesbos
MSF strongly condemns the authorities’ failure to identify a solution to keep the isolation centre open when there is still a risk of COVID-19 spreading through nearby Moria reception centre, where more than 15,000 refugees are living in overcrowded and unhygienic conditions.
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COVID-19 test maker Cepheid overcharges and undersupplies WHO effort for developing countries
Cepheid charging four times more than it should per test, according to MSF research.
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COVID-19 & Medical Deterioration in Northwest Syria
Four months after COVID-19 was officially declared an international pandemic, the disease has made its way into Northwest Syria, with a first case confirmed on July 9, 2020. Since then, eighteen more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the area. More than half the positive cases so far are healthcare workers who were working […]
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MSF condemns the killing of five aid workers in northeast Nigera
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is horrified to hear the news of the killings of five humanitarian aid workers in northeast Nigeria. The aid workers who came from Action Against Hunger, the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), International Rescue Committee, Reach International and a security guard protecting humanitarian facilities, were abducted last month. […]
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In remote Kyrgyzstan, COVID-19 puts strain on health system
As COVID-19 cases surge in Kyrgyzstan, especially in the capital Bishkek, rural and remote regions are bracing themselves for the virus by scaling up preventive measures.
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COVID-19 in El Salvador: MSF warns of increase of deaths and collapse of health system
MSF has warned of an increase in people dying of COVID-19 in the metropolitan area of San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador.
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