The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told an international forum Friday that society cannot return the “previous normal” as he laid out socioeconomic responses amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We must keep in sight the gravity of the situation,” Mohammed said Friday, addressing the severity of the coronavirus globally. To date, the coronavirus has infected over 9 million people and killed more than 472,000 globally. The World Bank has reportedly estimated that 70 to 100 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty, and the world could see the sharpest decline in per-capita income since the 1870s. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has further warned that 265 million people “could face acute food insecurity by year’s end — double the number at risk before the crisis,” Mohamed said.

Source: Fox News June 26, 2020 23:26 UTC