The head of the World Food Program (WFP), David Beasley, worried Thursday, December 10 of a "
pandemic of hunger
" with the effects, according to him, potentially more serious than the Covid-19, by receiving the Nobel of the remote peace because of the health crisis.
Read also: Yemen: the UN Secretary General warns of the risk of famine
"
Due to the many wars, climate change, the widespread use of hunger as a political and military weapon - and a global pandemic that is making it all exponentially worse - 270 million people are heading for famine
" , warned the American official. "
Not meeting their needs will cause a pandemic of hunger which will obscure the impact of the Covid
", he said, in remarks broadcast from the headquarters of the UN agency in Rome.