Paris,France — World hunger rose steeply in 2020, with six times more people living in “famine-like conditions” than in 2019, rights group Oxfam said Friday.
The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated existing crises sparked by conflict and climate change — the “three lethal Cs” — according to the group.
“Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, vulnerable communities around the world have been sending a clear, urgent, and repeated message: ‘Hunger may kill us before coronavirus’. Today, deaths from hunger are outpacing the virus,” it said in a statement.
Oxfam calculates that 11 people a minute are likely dying from acute hunger, compared to seven people a minute from COVID-19.
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