Health Desk :
UN agencies warned the coronavirus pandemic could lead to the deaths of an additional 51,000 under-fives in the Middle East and North Africa by the end of the year.
5.800 civilians displaced in Idlib in the last 24 hours
While there are not many cases of COVID-19 among children in the region, it is evident that the pandemic is affecting children’s health firsthand, UN said.
The World Health Organisation and United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said the disruption of essential health and nutrition services risked “reversing progress (on) child survival in the region by nearly two decades”. Such a number of extra deaths would represent an increase of almost 40 percent over pre-COVID-19 figures, they said in a joint statement issued in Amman.
