People queue at flour, split peas and food for children at an Oxfam distribution point in Herat, Afghanistan. earlier this year. Photograph: Kiana Hayeri/Oxfam
The Guardian: Hunger could kill millions more than Covid-19, warns Oxfam
Starvation looms from Afghanistan to Haiti as coronavirus restrictions wipe out incomes and cut food supplies
Millions of people are being pushed towards hunger by the coronavirus pandemic, which could end up killing more people through lack of food than from the illness itself, Oxfam has warned.
Closed borders, curfews and travel restrictions have disrupted food supplies and incomes in already fragile countries, forcing an extra million people closer to famine in Afghanistan and heightening the humanitarian disaster in Yemen, where two-thirds already live in hunger.
One million more people are facing famine in Afghanistan as a result of coronavirus, according to a report from the charity. The number of people on the brink of famine in the country rose sharply from 2.5 million last September to 3.5 million in May, the result of border closures and the economic downturn in neighbouring Iran that caused a drop in home remittances by overseas workers.
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