DEC launches Coronavirus Appeal to help people in world’s most fragile states fight triple threat posed by pandemic

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has launched a Coronavirus Appeal to raise funds to help the most vulnerable communities in the world fleeing from conflict and instability who now face the new deadly threat of Covid-19. The DEC Appeal aims to protect people from the virus in the world’s five most fragile states, plus Afghanistan, the most fragile state in Asia, and the world’s largest refugee camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The UK-wide appeal is being driven by urgent humanitarian need – but also by “good sense”, Alexander Matheou, British…

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