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The first famines linked to the coronavirus pandemic are poised to plague four areas of the world that were already suffering from chronic food shortages before the virus. In a confidential letter to the UN Security Council, cited by New York TimesThe UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mark Lowcock, warned that the risk of new famines in those areas has now worsened with the pandemic, after they have already been hit by “natural disasters, economic shocks and public health.” An explosive situation that is endangering “the lives of millions of women, men and children.”
Lowcock’s is just the latest in a series of alarms launched by the UN. In the United Nations hunger-related emergency monitoring system, famine is classified as “Phase 5”, the worst stage characterized by “extremely critical levels of hunger, death, misery and acute malnutrition”.
Mexico
The Mexican government yesterday, September 5, released the mortality rates in the country during the month of August, registering an increase compared to the expected trend of at least 122 thousand deaths with the pandemic. An increase considered above expectations by the Ministry of Health, The Guardian reports, suggesting that the actual number of deaths from the Coronavirus pandemic is much higher. In the last 24 hours, 6,319 new infections and 475 victims of the virus have been registered in Mexico. In total so far, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, the total balance amounts to 629,409 cases and 67,326 victims.
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