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10.5 million children lost a parent or caregiver because of covid, study says

‘Little is being done to care for children left behind,' warn authors of the global study

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Updated September 6, 2022 at 4:26 p.m. EDT|Published September 6, 2022 at 3:49 p.m. EDT
A pedestrian in a face mask walks by a mural of a child in Athens in November, as coronavirus cases soared in Greece and elsewhere. (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)
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More than 10.5 million children have lost one or both parents or caregivers during the coronavirus pandemic — nearly double the previous estimates — according to data released Tuesday.

Southeast Asia and Africa suffered the greatest rate of losses, with one out of every 50 children affected compared with one out of 150 children in the Americas, according to the research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics.