24/08/2021 (Agence Europe) – On Friday, 20 August, the European Commission announced that it was granting an additional €41 million in humanitarian aid to low- and middle-income countries in Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia in order to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Of this amount, €31 million will be used to provide assistance to vulnerable populations, to manage Covid-19 cases, and to improve the resilience of local health systems in view of future surges of the coronavirus. The rest will be allocated to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) so as to support the provision of vaccines to children under the COVAX initiative. (MB)