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‘1.2L children lose at least one parent with a pandemic’

New Delhi: Nearly 15 lakh children around the world have lost one of their parents, custodian grandparents or relatives, who take care of them, to Covid-19.
In India, the aglobal study showed that nearly 1.2 lakh children lost one of their parents – 25,000 lost their mother and 90,751 lost their father – and at least 12 children lost their parents.
According to research, published in Lancet, one of the top medical journals, there was an 8.5-fold increase in the number of orphans (43.139) in April 2021 compared to March 2021 (5,091) in India.
Children who lose parents or caregivers are at risk of short-term and long-term side effects in their health, safety, and welfare, such as an increased risk of disease, physical abuse, sexual violence and teen pregnancy.
Dr Susan Hillis, one of the main writers of this study, from US centers for disease control and prevention said: “For every two Covid deaths throughout the world, one child is left behind to face the death of parents or caregivers.
Our findings highlight the urgent need for Prioritize these children and invest in services to protect and support them.
“Professor study writer Lucie Cluver, University of Oxford, England, and Cape Town University, South Africa, said:” We have strong evidence of HIV and Ebola to guide solutions.
We need to support a large family or family foster to care for children.
And we need to respond quickly because every 12 seconds a child loses their caregivers to Covid.
“Before this report, there was no global character to count how many children were affected by loss Caregiver during covid-19 pandemic, either directly (due to viruses) or indirectly (curry Na other conditions that are exacerbated due to pandemic).
Study researchers develop mathematical models using the best data available as an initial effort to estimate the magnitude of this hidden impact from pandemics in children

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