Handwashing ‘impossible’ for one in three amid COVID-19

ABSTRACT

The joint World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF report also found that nearly half the world’s population in 2020 lacked safely managed sanitation and one in four lacked safe drinking water. Maria Neira, director, WHO department of environment, climate change and health Sub-Saharan Africa was found to have the slowest rate of progress in the world, with only 54 per cent of people using safe drinking water. Rachael McDonnell, deputy director general for the International Water Management Institute, says data collection is crucial to furthering progress.