{"id":61367,"date":"2021-07-22T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=61367"},"modified":"2021-07-22T16:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T15:08:01","slug":"4000-children-orphaned-in-nigeria-by-covid-19-says-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/07\/22\/4000-children-orphaned-in-nigeria-by-covid-19-says-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"4,000 children orphaned in Nigeria by COVID-19, says World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank has disclosed that an estimated 4,000 Nigerian children lost one or both parents between March 2020 and July 2021 due to COVID-19 associated death.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, fatalities from COVID-19 in Nigeria reached 2,130 with two new deaths from 238 new confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank stated this in its latest blog post co-authored by Laura Rawlings, lead economist at World Bank and Susan Hillis, a senior technical advisor, CDC COVID-19 International Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>The report, titled, \u2018For every two COVID-19 deaths, one child loses a caregiver. We must do more to address the orphan crisis,\u2019 said the children left behind have been practically invisible.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(21)01253-8\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a><\/strong>, nearly 2 million children have been orphaned since the global pandemic started in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the end of June 2021, because of COVID-19, our estimates show that nearly 2 million children aged under 18 years have lost a mother, father, and\/or grandparent caregiver who lived in their household,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economic, developmental, and psychological impacts on these children will reverberate across generations, a tragic legacy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/06\/16\/nigeria-to-receive-3-9m-doses-of-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-by-august\/\">COVID mortality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe COVID crisis will leave many unwanted legacies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world has been closely tracking the COVID-19 death toll, with official mortality counts now reaching over 4 million people, largely concentrated among adults. The children left behind have been practically invisible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Nigeria, it estimated that 4,100 children were orphaned for losing one or both parents or the death of custodial grandparents, according to Imperial College London\u2019s COVID-19 Orphanhood data dashboard developed for the report.<\/p>\n<p>It also showed that 4,600 Nigerian children lost one or both parents, death of custodial grandparents, and\/or death of other co-residing grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>Further analysis showed that Nigeria has the highest number of orphaned children in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Others in West Africa with more than 1,000 orphaned children include Mali (1,000), Ghana(1,500), Cameroon (2,600) and Senegal (2,400).<\/p>\n<p>South Africa currently has the highest number in Africa with 101,700 children orphaned within the period.<\/p>\n<p>The report added that during the pandemic\u2019s first 14 months, over 1 million children experienced death of primary caregivers, including parents or custodial grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>The report listed countries with primary caregiver death rates of at least one per 1,000 children to include Peru (10.2 per 1,000 children), South Africa (5.1), Mexico (3.5), Brazil (2.4), Colombia (2.3), Iran (1.7), the USA (1.5), Argentina (1.1), and Russia (1.0).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, over this same time frame, another half a million lost a grandparent caregiver living in their own home.<br \/>\n\u201cAt this rate, one child is orphaned every 12 seconds due to a COVID-19-associated death, and the toll is growing. Our most recent estimates reveal that for every 2 adults that die from COVID-19, 1 child is left without a familial caregiver.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank has disclosed that an estimated 4,000 Nigerian children lost one or both parents between March 2020 and July 2021 due to COVID-19 associated death. On Wednesday, fatalities from COVID-19 in Nigeria reached 2,130 with two new deaths from 238 new confirmed cases. 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