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Imagine you’re an aid official in a massive developing country where COVID-19 1 is just the latest in a long list of life-threatening challenges to millions of people. The question is: what do you do first?

In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson by Skype, UNICEF 2 ’s representative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Edouard Beigbeder, explains what his priorities are and what kind of threat the new coronavirus 3 poses so far.

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[1] COVID-19 Response | United Nations ➤ https://www.un.org/coronavirus[2]https://www.unicef.org/[3] COVID-19 Response | United Nations ➤ https://www.un.org/coronavirus