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Coronavirus threatens world with ‘humanitarian disaster’, warns UN

A cemetery built for the victims of the coronavirus in Manaus, Brazil, April 21, 2020.

Coronavirus pandemic risks doubling the number of people at risk of starvation worldwide and causing a worldwide "humanitarian disaster" due to its devastating economic repercussions, the World Food Program (WFP) has warned. , a UN agency.

While the disease has killed more than 174,000 people worldwide since its appearance in China in December, according to a report established Tuesday by AFP, the WFP has raised a cry of alarm about its consequences in terms of food.

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