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Over 6,000 children may die every day, warns Unicef

About 6,000 children around the world could die every day from preventable causes over the next six months due to the impact of Covid-19, a UN agency has warned.

Global disruption of essential maternal and child health interventions - such as family planning, birth and postnatal care, and vaccinations – could lead to an additional 1.2 million deaths of under-fives in just six months. This is according to analysis by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, published in the Lancet Global Health Journal.

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