Express (Germany) published an article that stated tThe corona pandemic works like a fire accelerator for already existing crises. As a result, the number of hungry people threatens to rise to one billion due to climate change and global wars. In the Lancet, Impacts of COVID-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality, Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey and colleagues wrote, “every day 24,000 people die as a result, three quarters of them are children under five. Due to the corona pandemic, almost 180,000 children under the age of five are at risk of starvation this year.”
Dramatic situation due to Corona The nightmare in emerging and developing countries (Express)
August 20, 2020