The Indian economy is shrouded in the clouds of uncertainty amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Top UN officials warn that the COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated discrimination and other human rights violations that can fuel conflict, and its indirect consequences are dwarfing the impact of the virus itself in the world’s most fragile countries.

The UN’s World Food Program (WFP) warns that around 2.2 million Syrians risk hunger and poverty in the Arab country.

Latin America marks COVID-19 death toll of 250,000 as Europe reports major surge in infections amid warning of rising poverty rate across the globe.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that the COVID-19 pandemic not only threatens gains in fighting global poverty and building peace but risks exacerbating existing conflicts and generating new ones.

The UN chief says the COVID-19 pandemic could push 45 million people from the middle classes into poverty in already economically troubled Latin America and the Caribbean.

Some 50 million people in the African continent are forecasted to be pushed into extreme poverty as a result of the covid-19 pandemic.

Refugees are the most affected people in India both by the coronavirus and its financial side effects.

Millions of people in India are battling the economic impacts of lockdown in addition to the coronavirus itself.

The UN has warned that the new coronavirus is pushing more than 100 million of South Asia children into poverty.