Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what impact assessment his Department has undertaken on the potential effect of UK nutrition aid programmes on immunity from covid-19.
Nutrition plays a critical role in the immune response to a range of infectious diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, and measles. We do not have strong evidence for the impact of malnutrition on the immune response to COVID-19 in developing countries. The department will continue to review this evidence.