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On 21 April, the United Nations World Food Programme warned that a famine "of biblical proportions" was expected in several parts of the world as a result of the pandemic. [ 418 ] [ 419 ] The release of 2020 Global Report on Food Crises indicated that 55 countries were at risk, [ 420 ] with David Beasley estimating that in a worst-case scenario ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced politics around the world; it affected the governing and political systems of multiple countries, reflected in states of emergency, [1] suspensions of legislative activities, isolation or deaths of multiple politicians and reschedulings of elections due to fears of spreading the virus.
Thousands of people, mostly supporters of the right-wing party Vox, attended protests in Madrid and the country's regional capitals over the lockdown and its impact on the Spanish economy. The protesters drove in convoys to adhere to social distancing, with the Madrid protest led by a bus containing Vox leader Santiago Abascal.
Observers stated that the lockdown had slowed the growth rate of the pandemic by 6 April to a rate of doubling every six days, [162] and by 18 April, to a rate of doubling every eight days. [163] As the end of the first lockdown period approached, state governments and other advisory committees recommended extending the lockdown. [164]
The Great Lockdown has been used to refer to a number of topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic which occurred in 2020: The pandemic as a whole; COVID-19 lockdowns;
As of 12 April, nearly 300 million people, or about 90 per cent of the population, are under some form of lockdown in the United States, [441] more than 50 million people are in lockdown in the Philippines, [442] about 59 million people are in lockdown in South Africa, [443] and 1.3 billion people are in lockdown in India. [444] [445]
Both the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have published statements noting the impact of the lockdowns on livelihoods and food security, and David Nabarro, WHO Special Envoy on COVID-19 stated in October 2020 that "lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor ...
Yang Wanming, China's top diplomat in Brazil, retweeted a message that said: "The Bolsonaro family is the great poison of this country." [11] State propaganda in China has been promoting a narrative that China's authoritarian system is uniquely capable of curbing the coronavirus and contrasts that with the chaotic response of the Western ...