Roughly 10.5 million children worldwide have a parent or carer who died from COVID-19, according to a modelling study1. The figure is a dramatic increase on earlier estimates. India, Indonesia and Egypt were the countries most affected; other regions throughout Africa and southeast Asia were also badly hit.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02941-z
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