Over 3,000 orphaned, 26,000 lost a parent in India since Covid-19 outbreak
New Delhi: Between April 1 last year and June 5 this year — a period that saw India battling two waves of Covid-19 — 3,621 children were orphaned, 26,176 lost either parent and 274 were abandoned, India’s National Commission for Child Rights (NCPCR) said in