UN Food Chief: World Faces 2 Pandemics – COVID-19 and Hunger
The United Nations’ food chief warned Tuesday that while the world fights the coronavirus pandemic, it is also on the brink of a hunger pandemic.”Millions of civilians living in conflict-scarred nations, including many women and children, face being pushed to the brink of starvation, with the specter of famine a very real and dangerous possibility,” World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley told a remote meeting of the U.N. Security Council.Beasley said 821 million people worldwide are chronically hungry, and 135 million face crisis levels of hunger. With the added …