Flooding In China, In Palermo, Italy, And The On-going Spreading Of Locusts -- UPDATED -- To Include Floods In South Asia

First COVID-19 hit China, then Italy.  Now comes flooding in China, near the Yangtze River [1], and in the capital of Sicily, Palermo, Italy [2].  Then there is the on-going breeding and spreading of locusts in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, Saudi Arabia [3], Iran, Pakistan, India and other countries [4], [5].  The illustration below is from FAO Locust's Twitter account [6]:

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UPDATED 7-20-2020:

Global News  on 17 July 2020 published an article entitled At least 221 dead across South Asia as heavy monsoon rains bring floods, landslides. [7]


[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-07-17/chinas-wuhan-declares-red-alert-as-floods-disrupt-supply-chains
[2] https://news.yahoo.com/heaviest-rainfall-since-least-1790-184512909.html
[3] https://www.arabnews.com/node/1629941/saudi-arabia
[4] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/swarm-of-locusts-threaten-livelihood-of-millions-in-african-asian-and-middle-eastern-countries/vi-BB16SJwY
[5] https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/un-body-warns-of-another-invasion-of-locusts-in-july/story-ejXzmlkPdDEqcSAArjcfoN.html
[6] https://twitter.com/faolocust
[7] https://globalnews.ca/news/7187798/south-asia-monsoon-flooding/