Coronavirus Briefing Newsletter

• India’s health ministry has actually verified 456,183 Covid-19 cases (183,022 active cases) and 14,476 casualties. 15,968 fresh cases were recorded on Tuesday.
• Deaths throughout the world are 477,601(over 9.26 million infections).

The numbers are as of Wednesday, 12: 30 pm IST. Have a look at the current information here

Children may be less susceptible to the coronavirus itself, however they have actually been exceptionally impacted by its fallout in South Asia, including the economic and social effects of the lockdown and other steps taken to counter the pandemic, UNICEF said in a report titled “Lives Overthrew”, threatening the future of 600 million kids in the subcontinent.

Emphasizes:

• The disturbance in the healthcare system has increased the risk of other diseases. UNICEF flagged the cut down in immunisation programmes, lack of healthcare employees, and a drastic reduce of public transport– the lack of it reduces the access to hospitals and clinics– as some significant concerns.
• In Might, research study by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health alerted that an extra 2,400 kids in South Asia might die every day from the indirect consequences of the pandemic. In the worst-case scenario, UNICEF says, South Asia might see extra deaths of as lots of as 881,000 kids aged 5 or under which of 36,000 moms over the next 12 months. The bulk of these deaths would take place in India and Pakistan, the report said. Up to 300,000 kids might die in India in the next 6 months alone, the Times of India reports, based upon inputs from UNICEF India representative Yasmin Haque.
• The closure of schools has actually affected the children due to the unequal access to online education. “In India, school closures have impacted 247 million children enrolled in primary and secondary education and 28 million children who were attending pre-school education in anganwadi centres. This remains in addition to the more than 6 million ladies and boys who were already out of school prior to the Covid-19 crisis,” UNICEF said.
• Poor nutrition, a consistent problem in South Asia, is another issue. Across the area, an approximated 7.7 million kids under 5 struggle with serious wasting and over 56 million are stunted. 40 million of those kids reside in India alone. Since March, the enormous loss of jobs and income have made it more difficult than ever for poorer families to offer healthy meals for their children.
• ” In the confined setting of numerous homes, children are being locked down with their abusers,” stated UNICEF Regional Kid Defense Adviser, Kendra Gregson. In India, the main government’s child helpline received 460,000 employs 21 days from March 20 to April10 “Almost 10,000 of these required CHILDLINE staff to reach the children in requirement of support. Of these 30%related escalation in violence, kid sexual assault, child marriage and kid labour,” UNICEF stated.

The report here

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