Hunger is coming
Apr. 23rd, 2020 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nairiporterhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-52373888
The world is facing wide-spread famine of "Biblical proportions" due to the coronavirus pandemic, the UN has warned. 30 developing countries are risking an imminent shortage of food, 10 of them already having more than 1 million people at the brink of survival. And we're not talking of just being hungry, we're actually talking of people living in extreme conditions due to the lockdown.
Covid-19 may have already hit Africa and the Middle East just as badly as the developed world, except it is much harder to track it there. It's becoming evident that the health-care systems there will not be able to cope with the pandemic on their own, and the economic consequences will likely bring a severe shortage of resources. So we're not just talking a virus pandemic, in that case it's more about a hunger pandemic. This is about to become the worst humanitarian crisis in a century.
Unless the developed world acts swiftly to prevent this catastrophe, that is. In fact, its has already pledged 2 billion dollars of aid, but what's left is to now see it efficiently delivered and distributed. Another 350 million will be needed to create the logistical system to bring all those resources to their recipients (you know, food, medicines and medical equipment), using all means possible.
The world is facing wide-spread famine of "Biblical proportions" due to the coronavirus pandemic, the UN has warned. 30 developing countries are risking an imminent shortage of food, 10 of them already having more than 1 million people at the brink of survival. And we're not talking of just being hungry, we're actually talking of people living in extreme conditions due to the lockdown.
Covid-19 may have already hit Africa and the Middle East just as badly as the developed world, except it is much harder to track it there. It's becoming evident that the health-care systems there will not be able to cope with the pandemic on their own, and the economic consequences will likely bring a severe shortage of resources. So we're not just talking a virus pandemic, in that case it's more about a hunger pandemic. This is about to become the worst humanitarian crisis in a century.
Unless the developed world acts swiftly to prevent this catastrophe, that is. In fact, its has already pledged 2 billion dollars of aid, but what's left is to now see it efficiently delivered and distributed. Another 350 million will be needed to create the logistical system to bring all those resources to their recipients (you know, food, medicines and medical equipment), using all means possible.
