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.