Unicef warned that the health and well-being of children have suffered most from the socio-economic effects of the pandemicaa Latin America, a region that accumulates 18% of the population, but 25 to 30% of those affected and 32% of global mortality.
“The pandemic really it has affected Latin America more than other regions of the world“, Said Unicef’s regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jean Gough, who this Sunday concludes a week-long official visit to Ecuador.
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The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund has met with local authorities and conducted field visits to towns in the Andean mountains and the border with Colombia, to learn first hand about the reality of children in matters as chronic child malnutrition or the situation of adolescence.
“The restrictions that governments have adopted to reduce the pandemic have had enormous socio-economic impacts on the population “, He said about the indicators that point to the fact that Latin American families have seen their income reduced due to the pandemic.
Unicef released a survey on Wednesday that showed that 8 out of 10 households with children in Ecuador reduced their incomes and experienced greater difficulty in accessing nutritious food.
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Official statistics before the pandemic (2019) indicated that 1 in 4 people in the Andean nation (25%) was in poverty, a parameter that last December reached 32%.
In the region, in addition, GDP fell by 7% for covid-19, “Economic degrowth that will have a very large social impact in the region,” Gough predicted.