As home births rise in Nepal, so do fears for maternal health

Published on July 8, 2020

Home births are rising in Nepal as fewer pregnant women visit hospitals, fuelling fears that the coronavirus pandemic could reverse years of progress on maternal health in the South Asian nation. The New Humanitarian

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EARLY RELEASE: Update: COVID-19 Among Workers in Meat and Poultry Processing Facilities - United States, April-May 2020

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Hunger could kill millions more than Covid-19, warns Oxfam

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Oxfam said that up to 12,000 people could die from hunger every day globally – 2,000 more than died from Covid-19 each day in April. Along with Afghanistan, the charity identified Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Venezuela, the west African Sahel, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, and Haiti as extreme hunger hotspots. The Guardian