Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has focussed resources in all countries globally, toward countering the pandemic threat. Despite the high infection and mortality rates in a number of high-income countries, social and economic disparities determine that the impact of Covid-19 will be most acute in low -and middle-income countries. These challenges are exacerbated in humanitarian situations in the poorest and most fragile economies where access to nutritious food, clean drinking water, and good quality health services are limited, and the resources and capacities of caregivers are already stretched. Conflict, internally displaced populations and environmental factors further impact on food insecurity. In these settings, malnutritionstunting, wasting and hidden hunger-was already a growing problem before Coronavirus appeared with the rechannelling of donor resources to tackle the pandemic potentially weakening responses to nutrition and other public health priorities.