The Double Emergency: When COVID-19 impacts a humanitarian crisis
Nearly a quarter of the world’s children live in conflict or disaster-stricken countries. COVID-19 has been an added blow to their already uncertain futures. Travel with us to Yemen to learn about the double burden that COVID-19 has placed on the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Then to the Pacific Islands, to find out what happens when a cyclone strikes during the pandemic.
![A health worker uses a syringe to extract a vaccine from its vial. He is wearing gloves. The syringe and vaccine vial and his hands are in focus and he is in the background out of focus. This photo was taken in India in 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_index/public/hero/images/UN0499232.jpg?itok=q86uWPD8)