31 Mar 2020 -  2 April World Autism Awareness Day (A/RES/62/139) OCHA Jens Laerke · OCHA/ Roundup of COVID-19 updates from the field (various countries already experiencing humanitarian crises) UNICEF Marixie Mercado, with Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF DR Congo Representative and Simon Ingram, Report author · The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s battered healthcare system needs urgent support as it struggles with measles and cholera epidemics that kill thousands of children, as well as the mounting threat from the coronavirus, COVID-19, says UNICEF UNHCR Cecile Pouilly · Latest press release - UNHCR: Staying and delivering for refugees amid COVID-19 crisis UNDP Sarah Bel · Virtual press conference today at 1 p.m. - COVID-19 threatens to devastate developing countries’ economies and ramp up inequality: Insights from Nigeria and Thailand WMO Clare Nullis · Virtual press conference 1 April at 11 a.m. on the impact of COVID19 on weather observations Listening and available to answer questions: HRC Rolando Gomez ICRC Ruth Hetherington ILO Rosalind Yarde IOM Paul Dillon OHCHR Rupert Colville OSE Jenifer Fenton UNCTAD Catherine Huissoud WFP Elisabeth Byrs WHO Tarik Jašarević