Hindustan Times (Chandigarh)

MORE KIDS TO DIE FROM HUNGER: UN

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HOUNDE, BURKINA FASO: The coronaviru­s pandemic and related 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 United Nations warned on Monday. Four UN agencies warned growing malnutriti­on would have longterm consequenc­es, transformi­ng individual tragedies into a generation­al catastroph­e.

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