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UN independent expert has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic's worst impacts on poverty yet to come, the Associated Press reported.

“The social safety nets put into place are full of holes,” said Olivier De Schutter, a Belgian legal scholar appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council as special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

“These current measures are generally short-term, the funding is insufficient and many people will inevitably fall between the cracks,” De Schutter said.

De Schutter's message is addressed to world leaders. He called on them to take more decisive steps to eradicate poverty and reduce inequality, the UN said in a statement.

According to the scientist, the economic crisis caused by the pandemic is unprecedented in peacetime since the Great Depression era in the 1930s.

The researcher warned that about 176 million people around the world are at risk of poverty.

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