United With India: Supporting India during the COVID surge
In the spring of 2021, the UN in India deployed its personnel and resources to help India respond to the devastating COVID-19 surge.
We worked with the national and state governments to deliver critical supplies and public health interventions - procuring and delivering life-saving oxygen generators and plants, testing machines and personal protective equipment (PPE). Collectively, we delivered over 10,000 oxygen generators, over 70 oxygen plants and over 10 million pieces of PPE.
The surge coincided with an accelerating pace in India’s vaccination drive. The UN stepped up its support for India’s vaccination programme as it raced to outpace the climbing infection rate.
We operated under our pledge to leave no one behind, striving to reach the most vulnerable and marginalized communities through the surge. See the full story here
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