Two UN peacekeepers in Mali have died due to COVID-19.
Two UN peacekeepers in Mali have succumbed to coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19, according to officials in the United Nations.
This, as some 100,000 troops of the United Nations deployed on about 15 various missions around the world. Two out of 100,000 were the first to die due to coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19.
In honoring the peacekeepers killed in the conflict, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres confirmed the said news during their meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York that two of its military colleagues died due to coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19.
The peacekeepers who died due to the said disease, according to Guterrez, were identified as members of the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) — one from Cambodia and one from El Salvador.
The United Nations reported a total of 137 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) throughout their peacekeeping missions as of Friday — including soldiers, civilians, police officers, and affiliated personnel police officers — with 53 total recoveries and two total fatalities.
As per the report, MINUSMA or the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali was the hardest-hit mission — with 90 total confirmed cases of COVID-19, 43 total recoveries, and two total fatalities.
This was followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo with 21 total confirmed COVID-19 cases and three total recoveries, and in the Central African Republic with 17 total confirmed COVID-19 cases and two total recoveries.
Moreover, the United Nations said that other cases were reported among its peacekeepers in Darfur, Israel, South Sudan, and Libya.
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