Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: WHO’s action in countries, territories and areas, 2020

Overview

COVID-19 has brought unprecedented changes into our lives. For many, WHO’s daily work to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable is invisible. But it makes a vital difference to the lives of billions of people around the world.

This publication consolidates a set of more than 70 rich case studies on WHO’s work in countries, territories and areas to support governments across a wide spectrum of COVID-19 response during March-December 2020. The stories and pictures in this publication showcase challenges that countries have faced, WHO’s contribution to finding national and regional solutions for tackling COVID-19 pandemic and opportunities for strengthening collaboration with other health, development and humanitarian national and international partners.