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Where once working men in heavy industry were diagnosed with cancers related to a more direct exposure to asbestos, now women in professions such as teaching, nursing and other occupations are being diagnosed, as well as young people.

As the government has no idea how many children were orphaned as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the government has embarked on an audit to determine the number of children in need of assistance.

Many children in South Africa had lost parents because of COVID-19, but measures are in place to ensure vulnerable children including COVID-19 orphans, spokesperson for the Department of Social Development Lumka Oliphant, told Xinhua Wednesday in response to a COVID-19 study. According to Imperial College London's study -- Children Affected…

Deaths associated with Covid-19 have left close to 150,000 children as orphaned. That number rises to 207,400 when including children who have lost their primary or secondary caregiver, such as a grandparent, says Unicef SA.

At current rates, one child is orphaned every 12 seconds due to a COVID-19-associated death, and the toll is growing. Photo: World Bank The toll is staggering The economic, developmental, and psychological impacts on these children will reverberate across generations, a tragic legacy of COVID mortality. To examine this pressing issue, we formed a Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19: Joint Estimates and Action through a collective of like-minded academics, practitioners fro...