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United Nations: Covid-19 Will Push 47 Million More Women into Poverty

XINHUA The coronavirus pandemic and its fallout will likely push 47 million more women into poverty, reversing decades of progress to eradicate extreme poverty, new data released  by the United Nations on Wednesday, Sept. 2, revealed. The study, commissioned by UN Women and the UN Development Program (UNDP), points to a 9.1 percent increase in the poverty rate for women.

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Mexico to Donate Ventilators to Caribbean Nations

Photo: Google By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration will donate much-needed Made-in-Mexico ventilators to eight financially strapped Caribbean nations to treat covid-19 patients, Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced on Wednesday, Aug. 26. The newly minted VSZ-20-2 ventilators — produced through the government’s Juntos por la Salud (Together for Health) program, with

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