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COVID-19 could double number of hungry people worldwide
- 21 April, 2020
- 12:48
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The number of people facing acute food shortages due to a pandemic caused by a new coronavirus disease could increase to 265 million worldwide in 2020, almost double last year's figure of 135 million people, Report says, citing TASS.
According to the UN World Food Program, about 265 million people in low - and middle-income countries will experience acute food shortages by the end of 2020 unless urgent action is taken."
On December 31, 2019, Chinese authorities announced an outbreak of pneumonia in China's Wuhan, the causative agent of which is a new type of coronavirus officially named COVID-19.
On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of a new coronavirus a pandemic.
More than 2.4 million people have contracted the virus since the beginning of the pandemic, while about 170 thousand lost lives.
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