The United Nations Human Rights Office is pushing countries around the world to do more to address the needs of people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Shutterstock)

The United Nations Human Rights Office released a document with guidelines on ways governments should mitigate the effects of Covid-19 on people with disabilities, including removing individuals from institutions and granting high priority for testing. It warned that people with disabilities face disproportionate impacts from both the disease and response measures such as lockdowns.