Asia falls behind: three new coronavirus infections every second

INTERNATIONAL

In India, from April 1 to May 25, there were 557 children who lost both parents to the coronavirus. When Smirti Irani, Minister of Child Welfare, released this data a couple of days ago on Twitter, she added that it was a rough estimate taken from the papers of new orphans that she had on the table.. The real figure, according to her, would be much higher. In Uttar Pradesh alone, the most populous state in India, Covid has left more than 1,000 orphans since the start of the pa