Child malnutrition during the Coronavirus disease 2019pandemic

In the period before the onset of the coronavirus 2019 disease (Covid-19) pandemic, the number of people suffering from malnutrition had escalated worldwide, despite the efforts made by leading international organizations to mitigate this phenomenon1. During the pre-pandemic period, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank reported impressive data from Asia and Africa, where 381 and 250 million people were undernourished in 2019, respectively, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean (48 million)2.

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