COVID-19 - Situation reports
WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - 20 July 2020 WFP’s new Global Response to COVID-19 plan (June 2020) was released this week, detailing the dire global needs, WFP’s response, and the significant requirements to sustain and scale up operations due to the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis.
To tackle the rising tide of hunger, WFP will undertake its biggest humanitarian response in history, reaching up to 138 million people in 2020, up from a record 97 million in 2019. According to WFP’s new estimates, 270 million people could be acutely food insecure by the year’s end in the countries where WFP operates – an 82 percent increase from before the pandemic – including 121 million people driven into severe hunger from the fallout of COVID-19.
