Barkatullah;
The world is finding it difficult to deal with poverty with the arrival of COVID-19. However, millions of people demanding for nourishments as they had lost their sources of income since the country shutdown but no government officials or representatives were yet to give them a hand, leaving them to starve. While other federal agencies in the world quickly adapted their programs to the coronavirus crisis and strengthening sectors in the country. Food banks around the globe scramble to meet a massive surge in demand . COVID-19 alone has not created such crisis, it is one more devastating blow, complicating and deepening the troubles of countries already struggling with the impact of war , global heating, other health crisis. It could almost double the number of those facing acute hunger, pushing an additional 130 million people to the brink of starvation . Regardless , the shortage in the countries are likely to affect a fifth of the world’s population. The head oh the World food Programme warned that we are now on the brink of a hunger pandemic. Famine is riding alongside. When the virus emerge , everything started to fall apart . According to a report released by the UN, the number of people in the great food insecurity is the point where people are facing famine is expected to double from 135 million to 265 million by the end of 2020 , unless dramatic steps are taken. Now the pandemic and accompanying national lockdowns are throwing tens of millions who lived on the edge into poverty and battering delicately balanced food supply chains. At the same time , any fiscal headroom poor countries had before the crisis is rapidly closing as swathes of the international economy goes into free fall . And poorer governments were not able to pay workers. As the economy costs mount and the belief that the great lockdown is saving lives but creating an immense food demands globally. It has halted much of the international flows of goods as well as movement of people. Even US, the superpower have filed workers jobless claimed since the lockdown . Global remittance flows have already started to decline as a result of the great lockdown. Today, remittance are the biggest source of capital flows to low- income countries accounting for up to 9% of their GDP. The World Bank estimated that the current decline in global remittance is the largest on record, affecting countries as small as Tonga, Haiti ,South Sudan, Egypt , Nigeria and Pakistan.