Coronavirus could kill more people through hunger than the disease itself, warns Oxfam

Charity estimates 122 million more people could be pushed to the brink of starvation as a result of the crisis

More could die as a result of hunger linked to Covid-19 than from the virus itself, a charity has warned.

A report by Oxfam estimates that 122 million more people could be pushed to the brink of starvation this year as a result of the social and economic fallout from the pandemic including through mass unemployment, disruption to food production and supplies, and declining aid.

This equates to as many as 12,000 people dying every day while the global mortality rate for coronavirus reached a peak of 10,000 deaths per day in April 2020, according to Oxfam’s Hunger Virus report.