Progress on Drinking-Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Schools: Special Focus on COVID-19 | NLM

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Progress on Drinking-Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Schools: Special Focus on COVID-19

08/13/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 8/13/2020. This 82-page report, co-published with UNICEF, details the latest data from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP), which reveal that 43 percent of schools around the world lacked access to basic hand-washing with soap and water in 2019 – a key condition for schools to be able to operate safely in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. (PDF)