This report from the NY Times said something similar:
This report from the NY Times said something similar:
Already, 135 million people had been facing acute food shortages, but now with the pandemic, 130 million more could go hungry in 2020, said Arif Husain, chief economist at the World Food Program, a United Nations agency. Altogether, an estimated 265 million people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by year’s end.
Africa’s reported number of coronavirus cases soared by more than 40 percent in the last week, stoking concerns that the continent could become the epicenter of the pandemic at a time when hunger is rising and doctors fear a resurgence of malaria deaths.
Confirmed cases have surpassed 25,000 among Africa’s 1.3 billion people, and the death toll has exceeded 1,200.
Dozens of nations have “very, very limited” capacity for testing, said John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at a Thursday briefing. The lack of tests could be obscuring a larger danger.
The virus threatens to kill more than 300,000 people in Africa, according to a United Nations estimate, and plunge tens of millions more into poverty.
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Fallout from food scarcity is expected to be most extreme in Yemen, Syria, Congo, South Sudan and Nigeria, the organization said.
“More people will die of hunger than the coronavirus,” said Isa Sanusi, spokesman for Amnesty International in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
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Another effect of travel restrictions: Medical deliveries are stalled, health-care workers say, and people battling illnesses other than the coronavirus face longer waits.
A shift in efforts away from malaria control could fuel another fatal outbreak, a new WHO report cautioned Thursday.
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