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The coronavirus pandemic is undermining efforts to improve diets and nutrition for nearly 2 billion people in Asia and the Pacific, according to a report published today.
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Asia and the Pacific Overview of Food Security and Nutrition states that 1.9 billion people were unable to afford a healthy diet in 2019 the year that is the focus of the study while estimates suggest the disruption caused to livelihoods and economies by COVID-19 only worsened problems in 2020, hitting women and children aged under 5 hardest, in spite of economic growth.
Conditions such as wasting in children up as poverty caused by coronavirus restrictions hits mothers' access to nutritious food Bangladesh: A woman in.