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“Two out of every five adults interviewed between May and June reported that their household had lost its main source of income since the lockdown started. This has had devastating consequences for household food security and hunger.” https://theconversation.com/south-africa-faces-mass-hunger-if-efforts-to-offset-impact-of-covid-19-are-eased-143143
Ecuador and Panama: “Families are struggling to buy basics like food and medicine, as livelihoods are destroyed and the number of people out of work in the region hits 44 million." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-than-11-million-people-in-latin-america-are-marching-towards-the-brink-of-starvation-u-n-food-chief-warns/
“Coronavirus & its restrictions are pushing already hungry communities over the edge, killing an estimated 10,000 more young children a month as meagre farms are cut off from markets and villages are isolated from food and medical aid, the UN warned.” https://www.france24.com/en/20200728-coronavirus-linked-hunger-kills-10-000-children-per-month-says-un
“AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (TB), three of the deadliest infectious diseases, together kill 2.4 million people every year, with TB alone responsible for 1.5 million deaths. And deaths from these diseases could almost double over the next year” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02334-0
“Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/health/coronavirus-tuberculosis-aids-malaria.html
“In a best case scenario, GDP per capita will recover to 2019 levels in 2024. In the medium case, Africa will only return to 2019 levels in 2030.“ https://phys.org/news/2020-08-impact-covid-africa-severe-setback.html
“Malaria-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020 could be more than double those of 2019 if malaria-prevention activities are interrupted due to COVID-19, suggests a modeling study published in Nature Medicine.“ https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-malaria-deaths-covid-.html
“People have gotten to the point where they just don’t give a damn,” said a minister in Kansas City, which is on pace for a record number of killings. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/us/homicides-crime-kansas-city-coronavirus.html
“Worldwide, the population facing life-threatening levels of food insecurity is expected to double, to more than a quarter of a billion people.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/business/covid-hunger-food-insecurity.html
“I was powerfully influenced by the visual images of the millions of migrant workers literally on the march by foot over thousands of kilometres trying desperately to make their way back to home villages as all work dried up. Many died en route” https://openthemagazine.com/feature/the-tyranny-of-coronaphobia/
"The number of children who do not have enough to eat has soared in the pandemic, according to the Census Bureau and Agriculture Department." https://theintercept.com/2020/09/23/hunger-food-insecurity-coronavirus-children-census/
"The surge in child labor could erode the progress achieved in recent years in school enrollment, literacy, social mobility and children’s health." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/world/asia/covid-19-india-children-school-education-labor.html?smid=tw-share
"Under the baseline scenario we estimate that COVID-19 [interventions] will push 71 million into extreme poverty." https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updated-estimates-impact-covid-19-global-poverty
"The Covid Economy Carves Deep Divide Between Haves and Have-Nots" https://wsj.com/articles/the-covid-economy-carves-deep-divide-between-haves-and-have-nots-11601910595
Sharp rise in those below the poverty line due to COVID-19 interventions.
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/34496/9781464816024.pdf
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/34496/9781464816024.pdf
