Over 500 children orphaned in India due to second wave of Covid
3 years, 6 months ago

Over 500 children orphaned in India due to second wave of Covid

India TV News  

The surge in Covid cases and consequent deaths have left more than 500 children orphaned in India. The central government is constantly monitoring all these orphaned children in coordination with the state governments. For the care and well-being of such orphaned children, Rs 10 lakh has been released to each district across the country, through the Non-Institutional Child Care Fund. However, according to sources, the central government has expressed deep concern and resentment over the fact that some institutions and individuals are constantly spreading confusion about the data of orphaned children.

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Over 60,000 children living in care homes in India; highest in TN
1 week, 2 days ago

Over 60,000 children living in care homes in India; highest in TN

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Over 60,000 children are living in institutional care in India, with Tamil Nadu continuing to take the lead with as many as 10,000 children living in these care homes, according to government data. Though the number of children living in these institutional care under the Mission Vatsalya scheme declined this year, the childcare institutions network further spread across …

Over half of PM CARES for Children scheme applications for COVID orphans rejected
5 months, 1 week ago

Over half of PM CARES for Children scheme applications for COVID orphans rejected

The Hindu  

About 51% of the applications received under the PM CARES for Children scheme for COVID orphans has been rejected, according to officials. Launched at the peak of COVID-19 cases in India on May 29, 2021, the PM CARES for Children Scheme aims to support children who lost their parents, a legal guardian, adoptive parents, or a surviving parent to the …

Adoptions Cross 4,000-Mark Since 2019: Why is India Struggling with Low Rate? What Can Be Done?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Adoptions Cross 4,000-Mark Since 2019: Why is India Struggling with Low Rate? What Can Be Done?

News 18  

India tweaked its Juvenile Justice Act to speed up the child adoption process when a large number of minors were abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, of the 4,009 children adopted in the last one year, 449 were in-country adoptions, according to the data collated by the Central Adoption Resource Authority, under the Ministry of Women and Child Development. The …

Post-Covid, more orphaned girlchildren find homes
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Post-Covid, more orphaned girlchildren find homes

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha’s child adoption rate has gone up marginally, particularly in case of girls, post the Covid-19 pandemic. This was pointed out in a report furnished by Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani as answer to a question on ‘adoption of orphans’ in the Lok Sabha recently. This includes 163 children within the country and 25 who were adopted …

India reports far fewer people with orphan diseases
1 year, 3 months ago

India reports far fewer people with orphan diseases

The Hindu  

Much of our conversation about health leads to the talk of a few common ailments that afflict several of our acquaintances — diabetes probably tops this list. Initiatives by patient groups Global numbers indicate that there are around 7,000 rare diseases affecting 300 million people. The Government’s National Policy for Treatment of Rare Diseases has only recently started making its …

India is 1 of 3 countries where confidence in children’s vaccines has increased: UNICEF report
1 year, 8 months ago

India is 1 of 3 countries where confidence in children’s vaccines has increased: UNICEF report

The Hindu  

Only China, India, and Mexico, that is three out of the 55 countries studied for popular perception of the importance of vaccines for children, showed improvement as per data collected by The Vaccine Confidence Project and published by UNICEF on April 20. UNICEF India today released the agency’s global flagship report ‘The State of the World’s Children 2023: For Every …

Rajasthan Asked to Pay Compensation to Children Orphaned by Covid Within 2 Weeks
2 years, 2 months ago

Rajasthan Asked to Pay Compensation to Children Orphaned by Covid Within 2 Weeks

News 18  

The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Rajasthan government to pay compensation to children orphaned by COVID-19 within two weeks. A bench of Justices M R Shah and Sudhanshu Dhulia also ordered the state government to furnish particulars to the state legal service authority with respect to rejected applications of payment of ex-gratia assistance within two weeks. It asked the …

Finding a home: The Hindu Editorial on India’s adoption policy
2 years, 4 months ago

Finding a home: The Hindu Editorial on India’s adoption policy

The Hindu  

Policy intervention without knowledge of the ground realities often ends up as an exercise in self-gratification for those in authority and results in little or no benefit for the intended target group. Whether the recent recommendation of a parliamentary panel to bring more abandoned children into the adoption process will fulfil these parameters is an issue that warrants further discussion. …

Long Covid Among Kids: Numbers May Not Be Too High, But It’s a Big Risk to Ignore Its Threats
2 years, 4 months ago

Long Covid Among Kids: Numbers May Not Be Too High, But It’s a Big Risk to Ignore Its Threats

News 18  

Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, it has been clear that children are less severely affected by Sars-CoV-2 than adults. Recent studies have shown that long Covid is prevalent in children infected with Sars-CoV-2. India started its vaccination campaign for kids above 12 in January 2022, but we need to drastically increase this coverage to protect children from long Covid. In …

WHO's process of estimating Covid-19 deaths unscientific, says Govt
2 years, 5 months ago

WHO's process of estimating Covid-19 deaths unscientific, says Govt

India TV News  

WHO Covid death estimation: The mathematical modelling approach adopted by the WHO to project excess mortality estimates related to COVID-19 suffers from erroneous assumptions and is unscientific and India had registered its strong objection to this methodology, the government informed Parliament on Tuesday. India had objected to the "one size fits all" approach adopted by the WHO as it might …

COVID-19: India registers 16,135 fresh cases, 24 deaths in last 24 hours
2 years, 5 months ago

COVID-19: India registers 16,135 fresh cases, 24 deaths in last 24 hours

India TV News  

Highlights India recorded 16,135 new cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 24 deaths. Covid 19 news: India recorded 16,135 new cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 24 deaths due to the infection in the past 24 hours. According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Monday, the country saw a total of 13,958 discharges in …

WHO report on Covid deaths in India mischievous, says health ministry official
2 years, 7 months ago

WHO report on Covid deaths in India mischievous, says health ministry official

India Today  

A top health ministry source has called the World Health Organisation's finding that 4.7 million people had died in India directly due to Covid or due to the pandemic’s impact on health systems and society "mischievous". Following the report, India strongly objected to the use of mathematical models by the WHO for projecting excess mortality estimates linked to the coronavirus …

India Saw Uptick in Deaths, Fewer Births Registered in First Year of Pandemic: CRS Data
2 years, 7 months ago

India Saw Uptick in Deaths, Fewer Births Registered in First Year of Pandemic: CRS Data

News 18  

India saw an uptick in the number of deaths registered in 2020, the first year of the pandemic, while the number of births registered in the Civil Registration System in that year declined 2.4 per cent as compared to 2019. The number of deaths increased by 6.2 per cent in 2020 from the year before that, according to data released …

Recorded deaths rose to 81 lakh in 2020 from 76 lakh in 2019
2 years, 7 months ago

Recorded deaths rose to 81 lakh in 2020 from 76 lakh in 2019

The Hindu  

The number of registered deaths increased from 76.4 lakhs in 2019 to 81.2 lakhs in 2020 and out of the total registered deaths the share of male and female are 60.2% and 39.8% respectively,’’ noted the report on ‘Vital Statistics of India based on the Civil Registration System’ for the year 2020. The report adds that based on information provided …

Settling India’s COVID-19 mortality data
2 years, 7 months ago

Settling India’s COVID-19 mortality data

The Hindu  

Over the last year, the World Health Organization has been busy, in an unprecedented effort, to calculate the global death toll from COVID-19. There are gaps Several news reports have pointed at a significant gap in India’s COVID-19 story — significantly under-reported mortality figures. Because as in these figures, India would have had close to four times the COVID-19 deaths …

1,054 new Covid cases in India, 8.3% lower than yesterday
2 years, 8 months ago

1,054 new Covid cases in India, 8.3% lower than yesterday

Hindustan Times  

India on Sunday witnessed a 8.3 per cent dip in its daily Covid tally against yesterday’s infections with 1,054 people testing positive in the last 24 hours, the latest health ministry data showed. The vaccination for Covid-19 had started in January 2021 wherein healthcare workers were first made eligible for the vaccine followed by frontline workers This is for the …

Delhi records 131 Covid cases, two deaths; positivity rate 0.42 percent – India TV
2 years, 9 months ago

Delhi records 131 Covid cases, two deaths; positivity rate 0.42 percent – India TV

India TV News  

Delhi on Tuesday reported 131 fresh COVID-19 cases and two deaths, while the positivity rate stood at 0.42 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. Delhi on Monday had logged 136 cases with a positivity rate of 0.56 percent, and zero death. Amid a decline in daily cases of COVID-19 in Delhi, the number of patients …

Delhi: 73 child labourers rescued from factories; children mostly from UP and Bihar
2 years, 9 months ago

Delhi: 73 child labourers rescued from factories; children mostly from UP and Bihar

India Today  

A team of a child welfare organisation, Sahyog Care for You, along with the subdivisional magistrate of Narela have rescued 73 children from the factories in North Delhi. The team from the NGO working for kids revealed that they used to work as bonded labourers in polishing, toy and fan manufacturing units in north Delhi’s Bawana for 15 hours a …

Lancet study on orphanhood in India due to COVID-19 ‘sophisticated trickery’, says Government
2 years, 9 months ago

Lancet study on orphanhood in India due to COVID-19 ‘sophisticated trickery’, says Government

The Hindu  

Estimates in a Lancet article say that 19 lakh children experienced orphanhood due to COVID-19 in India during the first 20 months of the pandemic are "sophisticated trickery intended to create panic among citizens", the government said on Wednesday. "The Ministry of Women and Child Development finds the Lancet article dated February 24, 2022 giving estimates of children affected by …

Over 1.9 million kids in India lost parent or caregiver to COVID-19: Lancet study
2 years, 9 months ago

Over 1.9 million kids in India lost parent or caregiver to COVID-19: Lancet study

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: More than 1.9 million children in India lost a parent or caregiver due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a modelling study of 20 countries published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal. “We estimate that for every person reported to have died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, one child is left orphaned or loses …

Over 19 Lakh Indian Children Lost At Least One Parent to Covid-19, Highest in World: Study
2 years, 9 months ago

Over 19 Lakh Indian Children Lost At Least One Parent to Covid-19, Highest in World: Study

News 18  

Around 19.2 lakh kids lost at least one parent or caregiver to Covid-19 in India during the first 20 months of the pandemic, that is between March 2020 and October 2021, a study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health said. The peer-reviewed medical journal said that India accounted for the highest number of Covid orphans or children who …

Nearly 4,000 applications approved so far for PM CARES scheme to support kids who have lost parents to COVID-19: MWCD report
2 years, 10 months ago

Nearly 4,000 applications approved so far for PM CARES scheme to support kids who have lost parents to COVID-19: MWCD report

Firstpost  

The ministry also shared advisories and guidelines for supporting states/UTs regarding child care institutions, including providing vaccination for the eligible children and mental health support New Delhi: As many as 3,855 applications have been approved so far for PM CARES for Children scheme to support children who have lost both parents to COVID-19, said the Ministry of Women and Child …

Over 1.4 Lakh Children Lost Either Parent During COVID: NCPCR Tells Supreme Court
2 years, 11 months ago

Over 1.4 Lakh Children Lost Either Parent During COVID: NCPCR Tells Supreme Court

Live Law  

The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights has told the Supreme Court that as per the data uploaded on the Baal Swaraj Portal- CoVID care from April 2020 till January 11, 2022, 10094 children are orphaned, 1,36,910 children have lost either parent and 488 children are abandoned after the onset of COVID.The additional affidavit has been filed by …

India's surge in Covid-19 infections affecting young children
2 years, 11 months ago

India's surge in Covid-19 infections affecting young children

Hindustan Times  

Priti, who is five and lives in the city of Jaipur, had a fever for four days earlier this month but her parents didn't take her to a hospital. Authorities have reserved more than double the Covid hospital beds for children than recommended by experts out of fear of being underprepared But her condition persisted, resulting in diarrhoea and respiratory …

Indian hospitals have plenty COVID hospital beds for children
2 years, 11 months ago

Indian hospitals have plenty COVID hospital beds for children

Live Mint  

Indian states have reserved more than double the COVID-19 hospital beds for children than recommended by federal experts out of fear of being under-prepared, government data shows, although doctors say not many youngsters have needed critical care yet. Since the last major infection wave in India starting April, the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in the eastern state of …

Adoption Fills Empty Homes with Cheer Amid Gloom in 2021, Covid Orphans Seek Fresh Start in '22
2 years, 11 months ago

Adoption Fills Empty Homes with Cheer Amid Gloom in 2021, Covid Orphans Seek Fresh Start in '22

News 18  

When the devastating Covid second wave hit India in April 2021, there was barely a family in India left untouched by the virus. The ‘nowhere’ children According to a Lancet study, around 1.16 lakh children in India may have lost a parent to Covid from March 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021. “It is a myth that every child is …

No Need to Vaccinate Kids Against Covid Right Now, Centre Informed About Decision: NTAGI Member
3 years ago

No Need to Vaccinate Kids Against Covid Right Now, Centre Informed About Decision: NTAGI Member

News 18  

There is no need to vaccinate children against Covid-19 as the data shows no urgency, a member of the Narendra Modi government’s panel on vaccination has told News18.com. The data driving the decision to not vaccinate children on an urgent basis shows no significant mortality among children due to Covid-19. We have registered deaths among children due to cancer, leukaemia …

These 253 Million Indians Should be Next in Line to Get Covid-19 Vaccine Now
3 years ago

These 253 Million Indians Should be Next in Line to Get Covid-19 Vaccine Now

News 18  

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 spread as a pandemic. The 2011 Census data reveals that about 35 per cent of the population falls in the age group of 0-14 years and another 10 per cent between 15 and 19 years. More significantly, India has the largest adolescent population in the world, 253 million, and every …

Credible data needed on COVID deaths in India: Rahul Gandhi
3 years ago

Credible data needed on COVID deaths in India: Rahul Gandhi

India TV News  

Highlights Rahul Gandhi attacked Gujarat model which BJP has projected as the best in India Congress demands compensation of Rs 4 lakh be given to families of those who lost their kin Official tally says 10,000 people died due to Covid, but truth is 3 lakh, claims Rahul Gandhi Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday demanded that the government …

How Covid-19 has forced the dropout rate to shoot up in India and what we can do
3 years, 1 month ago

How Covid-19 has forced the dropout rate to shoot up in India and what we can do

India Today  

Sabin, a primary school student from Delhi slums, had to drop out of school because her parents could no longer educate three children on their pandemic-affected meager income. Unemployment has been rising since the Covid-19 pandemic started in early 2020, which has pushed parents to prioritize survival over children’s education, especially fees in private schools. How to prevent further dropouts …

Should private paediatricians administer Covid-19 vaccine to children? Experts answer
3 years, 2 months ago

Should private paediatricians administer Covid-19 vaccine to children? Experts answer

India Today  

Even as vaccination for those below 18 is being deliberated on, there is a lot of discussion on who will vaccinate children against Covid-19. Paediatricians in India suggest that the 35,000-strong medical expert team that specialises in children’s health and registered private paediatricians should be involved in vaccinating children against Covid-19. “We have sent recommendations to the Prime Minister’s Office …

845 children orphaned during pandemic to get benefits Of PM-CARES For Children Scheme
3 years, 2 months ago

845 children orphaned during pandemic to get benefits Of PM-CARES For Children Scheme

India Today  

A total of 845 children who were orphaned during the pandemic have been approved as eligible for benefits under the PM-CARES for Children scheme till now, a senior official said Wednesday. PM-CARES for Children stipend Additional Chief Secretary/ Principal Secretary/ Secretary of the department shall be the State Nodal Officer for implementation of PM CARES for Children Scheme. The scheme …

Orphaned Due to Pandemic, These Kids May Now Have to Abandon Their Education
3 years, 3 months ago

Orphaned Due to Pandemic, These Kids May Now Have to Abandon Their Education

News 18  

When Chandrabhan Kushwaha, who runs a small chocolate-biscuit shop in the Hatta tehsil headquarters of Damoh district in Madhya Pradesh, got infected with COVID-19 during the deadly second wave, little did he know that it would devastate his entire family. The Madhya Pradesh government has announced many schemes for those affected by the pandemic, including a pension of Rs 5,000 …

'More Than One Lakh Children Lost Either Or Both Parents During COVID' : Supreme Court Directs CWCs To Complete Inquiries On Orphans Within 3 Weeks
3 years, 3 months ago

'More Than One Lakh Children Lost Either Or Both Parents During COVID' : Supreme Court Directs CWCs To Complete Inquiries On Orphans Within 3 Weeks

Live Law  

Expressing distress at the Covid pandemic devastating the lives of many children who lost their parents at a tender age, the Supreme Court has directed the Child Welfare Committees to complete the pending enquiries with respect to such children within three weeks. While lauding the progress made by the Union Government and State Governments in identification of the orphans and …

Private schools in Delhi must allow Covid orphans to continue education till end of academic year
3 years, 3 months ago

Private schools in Delhi must allow Covid orphans to continue education till end of academic year

India Today  

Delhi Government has decided that private schools in Delhi must allow Covid orphans to continue education till the end of the academic year. What DoE said In an official release on Thursday, the Directorate of Education said that all districts in Delhi have been directed to give due attention to children who lost one parent or became orphans after March …

721 children in child care institutions contracted Covid since outbreak: RTI
3 years, 4 months ago

721 children in child care institutions contracted Covid since outbreak: RTI

India Today  

Over 720 children in child care institutions in 11 states and Union Territories have contracted Covid-19 till now and no fatalities have been reported, according to data from the country's apex child rights body. The data, which was shared by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights in response to an RTI query from PTI, also stated that 686 …

Children who have lost parents during pandemic should be given free education in same schools: Delhi govt
3 years, 4 months ago

Children who have lost parents during pandemic should be given free education in same schools: Delhi govt

India TV News  

The Delhi government has directed schools in the national capital to ensure that students who have become orphans or lost a parent after March last year be adjusted in the same school and offered free education. "All districts are directed to ensure that children who have become orphans or lost a parent after March, 2020 either due to COVID-19 or …

MP govt calls reduction in number of abandoned children ‘technical error’
3 years, 4 months ago

MP govt calls reduction in number of abandoned children ‘technical error’

Hindustan Times  

The Madhya Pradesh government has called a 32% reduction in its data of abandoned children during the second wave of Covid-19 “a technical error”, after emerging as the state with the highest number of such recorded cases. A National Commission for Child Rights Protection status report on orphans and abandoned children between April 2020 and June 2021, submitted to the …

499 Covid cases among those under the age of 19: Data
3 years, 4 months ago

499 Covid cases among those under the age of 19: Data

Hindustan Times  

Bengaluru: In the first week of August, Bengaluru reported 499 cases of Covid-19 among children under the age of 19. Though the rise in numbers is causing concerns at a time when the apprehension of a third wave of the pandemic is looming large, however, the city administration has said that there is no alarming increase in the number of …

India’s schoolchildren need their childhood back
3 years, 4 months ago

India’s schoolchildren need their childhood back

The Hindu  

The economy is open. Expert opinion In June 2021, commenting on the World Health Organization-All India Institute of Medical Sciences serosurvey, AIIMS Director, Dr. Randeep Guleria said, “This study also looked at sero surveillance among children. There are a host of recommendations on how to open schools safely, including by the World Bank, SRCC Children’s Hospital, Mumbai and the Lancet …

Figures on Covid orphans unrealistic, unreliable: SC to West Bengal Govt
3 years, 4 months ago

Figures on Covid orphans unrealistic, unreliable: SC to West Bengal Govt

Op India  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday tore into the West Bengal government for providing “unrealistic” and “unreliable” figures of children being orphaned and abandoned in the State owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. The bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and Aniruddha Bose rebuked the TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee led government for not uploading correct information of children who were orphaned during …

'Only 27 Orphans Due To COVID? We're Not Prepared To Believe This Figure': Supreme Court Pulls Up West Bengal Govt
3 years, 4 months ago

'Only 27 Orphans Due To COVID? We're Not Prepared To Believe This Figure': Supreme Court Pulls Up West Bengal Govt

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the State of West Bengal for not uploading correct information of children who were orphaned during the COVID pandemic since March 2020. For West Bengal, the Bench has directed the District Magistrates to collect necessary information relating to children who have become orphans due to death of either or one parent after March …

Children orphaned during Covid-19 should be covered under welfare schemes: SC
3 years, 4 months ago

Children orphaned during Covid-19 should be covered under welfare schemes: SC

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court observed on Tuesday that the Centre's welfare schemes should cover all the children who were orphaned after the coronavirus disease pandemic struck, and not limit its benefit to those kids who lost their parents to the infection. The Supreme Court noted that government-run schemes such as PM-Cares Fund, which proposed a corpus of ₹10 lakh for children …

Abandoned girl child adopted by American couple in Gujarat's Kutch
3 years, 5 months ago

Abandoned girl child adopted by American couple in Gujarat's Kutch

India Today  

An abandoned girl child in an orphanage in Gujarat's Kutch was recently adopted by an American couple. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, the couple could not travel to India earlier to fulfill the formalities and take the child along. As soon as the Covid-19 cases in India dropped, the couple came here to take their adopted child. The girl …

Over 15 lakh children lost a parent to Covid, including 1.2 lakh in India
3 years, 5 months ago

Over 15 lakh children lost a parent to Covid, including 1.2 lakh in India

India Today  

Children have borne the harshest brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic in the last 14 months. Globally, over 15 lakh children are estimated to have experienced the death of at least one parent or a custodial or a co-residing grandparent, or other older relative. Out of the 15 lakh, from March 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021, the study estimated that …

Given robust system of reporting, missing out on Covid deaths unlikely: Centre
3 years, 5 months ago

Given robust system of reporting, missing out on Covid deaths unlikely: Centre

India Today  

Refuting media reports that alleged India's Covid-19 death toll was "vastly undercounted", the government on Thursday said the reports assume that all excess mortality figures are Covid deaths, which is not based on facts and totally fallacious. Given the robust and statute-based death registration system in India, while some cases could go undetected as per the principles of infectious disease …

1,19,000 Indian Children Lost Caregivers to Covid During First 14 Months of Pandemic: Report
3 years, 5 months ago

1,19,000 Indian Children Lost Caregivers to Covid During First 14 Months of Pandemic: Report

News 18  

More than 1.5 million children in 21 countries, including 1,19,000 from India, lost their primary and secondary caregivers to COVID-19 during the first 14 months of the pandemic, according to a study published in The Lancet. The countries with the highest number of children who lost primary caregivers include South Africa, Peru, United States, India, Brazil, and Mexico, it said. …

1,19,000 Indian children lost caregivers to Covid during first 14 months of pandemic: Report
3 years, 5 months ago

1,19,000 Indian children lost caregivers to Covid during first 14 months of pandemic: Report

India TV News  

More than 1.5 million children in 21 countries, including 1,19,000 from India, lost their primary and secondary caregivers to COVID-19 during the first 14 months of the pandemic, according to a study published in The Lancet. The countries with the highest number of children who lost primary caregivers include South Africa, Peru, United States, India, Brazil, and Mexico, it said. …

Global study estimates 1.5 million children lost parents or grandparents to Covid-19
3 years, 5 months ago

Global study estimates 1.5 million children lost parents or grandparents to Covid-19

CNN  

CNN — More than a million children around the world have lost a parent to Covid-19, and a total of 1.5 million have lost either a parent, a grandparent who helped care for them or some other relative responsible for their care, a new study finds. “Covid-19 has created this urgent crisis affecting children in almost every nation,” Dr. Susan …

Children may also be at Covid risk, proper planning needed to protect them: Health Ministry
3 years, 5 months ago

Children may also be at Covid risk, proper planning needed to protect them: Health Ministry

India Today  

The Union Health Ministry on Friday raised concern about the rise in Covid-19 cases in several districts in India and cautioned that children may also be susceptible to the infection. During a press conference on the Covid-19 situation in the country, Health ministry joint secretary Lav Agarwal stressed that proper planning is needed to protect children from contracting the virus. …

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