*Major study confirms increased risk of death, serious illness among COVID-19 survivors *Pregnant women with pandemic face high mortality rate, 11% of babies contracts virus from their mothers *Babies of women infected with coronavirus more likely to be born preterm, researchers find *WHO, UNICEF, Gavi highlight urgent need for renewed global commitment to improve vaccination access, uptake A recent study published in the journal Nature showed that COVID-19 pandemic has derailed the fight against other dangerous diseases such as tuberculosis, measles, polio, malaria and Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). According to the Nature, after India went into lockdown in March 2020, the number of new tuberculosis (TB) cases detected there each day dropped by an alarming 70 per cent in one month.