Newsbreak (Bloomberg Opinion) wrote that — Covid-19 the disease has mostly spared children’s lives, but it is widely expected that the measures taken to slow its spread and the economic dislocation that has followed in its wake will have all sorts of negative consequences for them.
IFPRI and Johns Hopkins researchers found that COVID-related malnutrition would claim the lives of 128,605 children under 5 around the world — mostly in Africa (See the IFPRI blogpost, COVID-19: The virus will mostly spare young children; the economic crisis will not).