Thousands more underfed children may die due to COVID
AN extra 10,000 children per month may die this year from malnutrition due to the COVID-19 crisis, the head of the World Health Organisation has warned. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a U.N Food and Agriculture (FAO) conference that due to the pandemic he expected a 14% rise in cases of severe child malnutrition this year - or 6.7 million more people - mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. "We cannot accept a world where the rich have access to healthy diets while the poor are left behind... the rich can afford to stay home, the poor must go out…