Sentence examples for reached emergency levels from inspiring English sources

America's housing crisis has reached emergency levels.

The epidemic has reached emergency levels and the government has implemented a task force on disasters and crisis to manage it.

The drought and the rise in food prices have deepened the chronic poverty in the district to a point of extreme crisis and malnutrition rates have reached emergency levels.

One answer is to start reporting hunger before it reaches emergency levels.

"If we are not allowed to deliver medicines and supplies to our hospital and health posts soon, disease outbreaks are likely to occur, and maternal and perinatal deaths are likely to increase and may even reach emergency levels".

Our correspondent says it is well known that oil theft is a major problem in Nigeria, but the report says it may be reaching emergency levels as 250,000 barrels of crude oil could be being stolen every day - 10% of annual production.

The charity Oxfam says, "We are seriously concerned that a lack of food may peak in May and June reaching emergency levels.

By Chiara Frisone With a measles epidemic reaching emergency levels, UNICEF is working to help provide treatment and prevention as local health systems are pushed beyond their capacity.

Eastern Sudan, a post-conflict region plagued by drought and described as chronically food insecure, has rates of malnutrition that reach emergency levels.

Malnutrition chronically reaches emergency levels in pockets of the Sahel because of multiple factors including land and crop degradation, periodic droughts and weather-related shocks, poverty, limited access to basic food staples and essential services, and population growth.

N'DJAMENA, Chad, 4 April 2012 – As malnutrition reaches emergency levels across the Sahel with at least one million children at risk, UNICEF's Executive Director Anthony Lake on a visit to the region today called for an urgent escalation of humanitarian efforts to stop the crisis and the cycle of disasters.