Global Humanitarian Response Plan: COVID-19 (April – December 2020) Progress Report: First Edition, 26 June 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased global humanitarian needs in 2020. At the beginning of 2020, global humanitarian requirements were already close to $30 billion, with 168 million people expected to need aid to survive. These global requirements have risen to a record $37 billion, including requirements to respond to COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded existing needs and created new challenges in an unprecedented way. With rapidly rising caseloads in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean, the pandemic is expected to peak in the next two to six months in the world’s most fragile places.