Report by Dan Walton and Maarten van Aalst. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
September 23, 2020.
The pandemic is increasing the needs of people suffering from climate-related disasters, compounding the vulnerabilities they face and hampering their recovery. The analysis, which quantifies the overlapping vulnerability of communities, shows that out of 132 identified unique extreme weather events that have occurred so far in 2020, 92 have overlapped with the COVID-19 pandemic. At least 51.6 million people worldwide have been affected by floods, droughts or storms and COVID-19.
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