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

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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.