Pandemic could cause famines of 'biblical proportions'

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Pandemic could cause famines of 'biblical proportions'
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The Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden, an iconic tourist destination in Kashmir, is the largest tulip garden in Asia, but has been all but deserted amid a nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19.

The coronavirus pandemic could soon double hunger, causing famines of"biblical proportions" around the world by the end of the year, the head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.

Tune into ABC at 1 p.m. ET and ABC News Live at 4 p.m. ET every weekday for special coverage of the novel coronavirus with the full ABC News team, including the latest news, context and analysis.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told MSNBC he thinks his meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House Tuesday was"productive," following a war of words between the two leaders.

New Jersey police officers and health care workers at a saliva-based coronavirus disease testing site during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Edison, New Jersey, April 15, 2020.While over 92,000 people have been diagnosed, the state is seeing decreases in the number of new hospitalizations, Murphy said.

When schools reopen, Murphy said"we will not hesitate to require additional protections, things like face coverings, or certain configurations of classrooms, if we believe by doing so we will make our schools even safer." "I pray that the number of Georgians who are infected and die will not increase significantly in the coming weeks as a result of the lifting of these restrictions," Dorough said.With Massachusetts in the midst of a rise in coronavirus cases, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Tuesday that schools will stay closed through the end of the school year.

A worker wearing protective equipment moves a stretcher at a temporary morgue set up at a mosque as the spread of the Coronavirus disease continues, in Birmingham, Britain, April 21, 2020.The U.K. has the fifth highest death toll, behind the U.S., Italy, Spain and France. Toy houses stand on a deserted schoolyard during the lockdown amid the coronavirus outbreak in Ronda, Spain, April 20, 2020.

An officer from the New York Police Department helps workers carry a body out of a house amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, April 20, 2020.Cuomo, who banned elective procedures when the pandemic struck, announced Tuesday that he will now allow elective outpatient treatment in counties and hospitals without significant risk of a surge in the near future.later on Tuesday at the White House.

Additionally, 857 patients were in intensive care units on Sunday, only slightly up from 853 patients on Saturday. Nashville Mayor John Cooper won't extend the current stay-at-home order past April 30, he told ABC News anchor Amy Robach on Tuesday. To the protesters rallying around Nashville, Cooper said,"It’s their right to protest and it's our right to keep people safe."

A doctor takes a swab sample during a COVID-19 testing drive inside the Dharavi slums amid a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the novel coronavirus, in Mumbai, India, on April 16, 2020. "It is shocking that more than 50 journalists of electronic media, particularly camera persons, have been found corona positive in Mumbai," JavadekarThere are nearly 19,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in India, and at least 603 people there have died, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University. The bulk of the country's cases have been recorded in Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital.The U.S.

A health worker uses a nasal swab to test a man for COVID-19 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on April 20, 2020. While many laboratories and companies are now offering tests, there are still only two main types available. The nasal swab test tells you if you have an active viral infection right now. A separate blood test tells you if you were previously exposed to the virus and fought off the infection.

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