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Live updates: Go inside the IRC’s response to COVID-19

A health worker takes a patient’s temperature before they enter a clinic run by the IRC in a town in northwest Syria.

COVID-19 response

Coronavirus by the numbers

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Jonathan Amissa sits at a desk with a sewing machine he uses to make masks for his staff and community. He is wearing yellow tape measure around his neck and is looking at the camera and smiling. There is a stack of red masks on the table.

Refugees welcome

Meet a refugee making masks for his community

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A woman sits at a chair at a table with doctor in full PPE opposite her. They are in a temporary clinic set up by the IRC at the Simón Bolívar bridge.

Coronavirus response

Go inside a COVID-19 response at the Venezuela-Colombia border

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Morena Baccarin's video call: How COVID-19 affects Venezuelans

First COVID-19 case confirmed in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Two IRC community health workers post COVID-19 awareness posters

COVID-19 response

The coronavirus reaches the world’s largest refugee camp: inside the IRC's response

Building a COVID-19 treatment center in the world's largest refugee camp

David Miliband: The IRC's Mother's Day pledge

Lovely Akter, an IRC midwife, poses with her nine-month-old daughter. Lovely is wearing a blue headscarf and her daughter is wearing a pink shirt. Both are smiling.

"Be strong, courageous and hopeful." Mothers' messages during COVID-19

Coronavirus response

The Prince of Wales, the IRC's UK Patron, shares a message of global unity

Doctors in northeast Syria describe their work during COVID-19

World Central Kitchen and refugees keep New Yorkers fed during COVID-19

A cellphone showing Refugee.Info site on the screen

COVID-19 response

Fighting misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic

Press releases

COVID-19 has reached IRC shelter along the US-Mexico border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, compounding vulnerabilities on asylum seekers fleeing violence

IRC: Coronavirus testing shortfall in crisis-affected states risks undetected outbreaks, imperilling COVID-19 fight worldwide

Indefinite Suspension of the US Border Will Worsen Public Health Crisis

UN Security Council Fails to Support Global Ceasefire, Shows No Response to COVID-19

Mexico faces triple burden: soaring COVID-19 cases and deaths, loss of jobs and rising femicides, warns IRC

Second hospital attack in four days puts Libya’s COVID-19 response further at risk, warns IRC