Almost 180,000 children are also at risk of starvation from pandemics (Jung Welt) 

Jung Welt (Germany) published an article presenting major findings from a study featured in The Lancet. The study, Impacts of COVID-19 on childhood malnutrition and nutrition-related mortality by Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey and colleagues found that due to the devastating consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, almost 180,000 children under the age of five are also at starvation this year. The researchers analyzed various scenarios and assume that 111,000 additional deaths in children under the age of five are at best, and 178,000 in the worst case. Depending on the length of the crisis, the numbers could be even higher.