Coronavirus Poverty

• Coronavirus reversed a decade of progress helping world’s poor, minister says

  As welcome as a vaccine will be, it won't cure the damage the global COVID-19 pandemic inflicted over the course of this year.

  Canada

  Dec 19, 2020
  
• Canada pledges $400M in global humanitarian aid to help combat coronavirus 

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will commit an additional $400 million in development and humanitarian spending to combat COVID-19.

  Canada

  Sep 29, 2020
  
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• Worst impacts on poverty from coronavirus crisis ‘still to come,’ UN expert says

  A legal scholar appointed by the UN said the economic downturn resulting from the pandemic is unprecedented in times of peace since the Great Depression in the 1930s.

  World

  Sep 11, 2020
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• Coronavirus is causing 10,000 more children to die of hunger per month globally: UN

  All around the world, the coronavirus and its restrictions are pushing already hungry communities over the edge, cutting off meager farms from markets and isolating villages from food and medical aid.

  World

  Jul 28, 2020
• World’s most remote locations see rise in coronavirus cases — Timbuktu is one of them 

  COVID-19 first arrived in Mali back in March, when two cases emerged -- one in the capital of Bamako, where international flights land, and the other in Kayes, a city with strong ties to the Malian diaspora in Europe.

  World

  Jul 1, 2020
• Many more Canadians going hungry as coronavirus pinches economy: StatsCan

  The novel coronavirus has ravaged the national economy, and more Canadians are going hungry as a result, Statistics Canada announced Wednesday.

  Health

  Jun 24, 2020
• Coronavirus: Short supply of medical oxygen worldwide leaves many gasping for air

  In wealthy Europe and North America, hospitals treat oxygen as a fundamental need, much like water or electricity. But in poor countries, from Peru to Bangladesh, it is in lethally short supply.

  World

  Jun 24, 2020
• Across the world, coronavirus hits poor neighbourhoods harder. Here’s why

  Across the world, poor neighbourhoods of big cities have suffered far more from the coronavirus than better-off ones.

  Health

  May 20, 2020
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• Coronavirus: $90B could support 700M of world’s poor, UN official says

  Mark Lowcock told a video briefing most experts agree that the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t reached the poorest parts of the world, but may peak in the next three to six months.

  World

  Apr 28, 2020