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World Coronavirus Dispatch: About 10 million under local lockdown across UK

Second wave across Europe, US average daily death toll at two-week high, UN food chief urges the rich to save starving poor, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

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5 min read Last Updated : Sep 18 2020 | 2:14 PM IST

UN food chief David Beasley called on the world’s billionaires on Thursday to step up and help save some 30 million people he said are at risk of dying if they don’t receive help from the World Food Programme. Globally some 270 million people were headed toward the brink of starvation and WFP hopes to reach 138 million people this year, Beasley told the UN Security Council

“We need $4.9 billion to feed, for one year, all 30 million people who will die without WFP’s assistance,” Beasley said, noting that there are some 2,000 billionaires with a net worth of $8

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