Pandemic could push 45 million in Latin America into poverty: UN

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COVID19 pandemic could push 45 million in Latin America into poverty: UN

UNITED NATIONS - The COVID-19 pandemic could push 45 million people from the middle classes into poverty in already economically troubled Latin America and the Caribbean, the United Nations said on Thursday.

The hard-hit region has registered more than three million cases of the novel coronavirus, more than half of them in Brazil, according to an AFP tally based on official sources.Guterres said the region could see a stunning 9.1 percent drop in GDP, the worst in a century.

 

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