UN agencies warn millions may slide into extreme poverty in the Caribbean due to COVID-19

UN agencies warn millions may slide into extreme poverty in the Caribbean due to COVID-19

SANTIAGO, Chile (CMC) — Two United Nations agencies have warned that millions of people may slide into extreme poverty and hunger in 2020 in Latin America and the Caribbean due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) impact.

In a joint report, “Preventing the COVID-19 crisis from becoming a food crisis: Urgent measures against hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean,” the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), said that as a result of the crisis prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the population living in extreme poverty in Latin […]

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