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Title: UN calls for safety net to stop people sliding into poverty
Source:Mint
Date:28 April 2020

Countries should ensure social protection for citizens as the covid-19 crisis will engulf some of the world’s poorest and most malnourished populations because of scarce resources, weak public health systems, and insufficient social protection, the UN said in a report released on 28 April 2020. This comes even as several families that were excluded from social welfare schemes, following a lockdown to check the spread of covid-19 infections, are among the worst hit, living with hunger and on the brink of starvation. More people died from the interruption of social services and the economic breakdown during the Ebola outbreak in 2014, than from the virus itself, noted the UN framework for the immediate socio-economic response to covid-19.




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