{"id":1188422,"date":"2022-01-04T19:35:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188422"},"modified":"2022-01-04T19:35:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:35:39","slug":"unicef-children-will-need-almost-a-decade-to-recover-from-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unicef-children-will-need-almost-a-decade-to-recover-from-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF: Children Will Need Almost a Decade to Recover from Lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funicef-children-will-need-almost-a-decade-to-recover-from-lockdowns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188422&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1231771412-1-e1641335918810-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Children from low-income families worldwide will need \u201cseven to eight years to recover and return to pre-COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] child poverty levels\u201d according to a recently published report by the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF), the Latin American news site Infobae <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/america\/america-latina\/2022\/01\/03\/en-ecuador-la-pandemia-tambien-ha-provocado-una-crisis-en-la-infancia-se-estima-que-el-retroceso-es-de-una-decada\/\">reported<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---11-march-2020\">began<\/a> in March 2020, has been \u201cthe worst crisis for children in UNICEF\u2019s 75-year history\u201d according to the organization\u2019s&nbsp;report entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/reports\/unicef-75-preventing-a-lost-decade\"><em>Preventing a Lost Decade<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn less than two years, 100 million more children have fallen into poverty, a 10 percent increase since 2019,\u201d UNICEF, a U.N. agency that provides humanitarian and developmental aid to poor children globally, <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/world\/preventing-lost-decade-urgent-action-reverse-devastating-impact-covid-19-children-and\">wrote<\/a> on December 9.<\/p>\n<p>The report included a call to \u201cresume in-person learning\u201d for school-aged children, millions of whom have been affected by ongoing coronavirus lockdowns that either shut down local schools or prohibit in-person classes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy September 2021, schoolchildren around the world have lost an estimated 1.8 trillion hours of in-person learning due to COVID-related school closures, which will have profound long-term, unequal social and economic effects,\u201d UNICEF revealed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jean Gough, UNICEF regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/america\/america-latina\/2021\/05\/31\/tras-14-meses-sin-clases-presenciales-el-representante-de-unicef-en-ecuador-pidio-que-los-ninos-vuelvan-a-las-escuelas\/\">warned<\/a> in March 2021 that \u201cchildren and adolescents [in Latin America] have been out of the classroom longer than any other boy, girl or adolescent in the world\u201d due to coronavirus lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF collected health data from\u200b 191 countries by May 2021 indicating that \u201creopening schools does not represent a health risk,\u201d Infobae reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>A series of health studies out of England published in July 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-01897-w\">demonstrated<\/a> children under the age of 18 are at a \u201cvery low\u201d risk of death or severe illness from \u201cCOVID-19,\u201d which is the disease caused by a type of coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. \u201cCOVID-19\u201d is also known as the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a series of preprints published on medRxiv1\u20133, a team of researchers picked through all hospital admissions and deaths reported for people younger than 18 in England. The studies found that COVID-19 caused 25 deaths in that age group between March 2020 and February 2021,\u201d <em>Nature<\/em> reported on July 15, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout half of those deaths were in individuals with an underlying complex disability with high health-care needs, such as tube feeding or assistance with breathing,\u201d the British scientific journal noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf 3,105 deaths from all causes among the 12 million or so people under 18 in England between March 2020 and February 2021, 25 were attributable to COVID-19 \u2014 a rate of about 2 for every million people in this age range,\u201d Nature revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone had asthma or type-1 diabetes, the authors note, and about half had conditions that put them at a higher risk than healthy children of dying from any cause,\u201d the journal relayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children from low-income families worldwide will need \u201cseven to eight years to recover and return to pre-COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] child poverty levels\u201d according to a recently published report by the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}