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STORY: UNICEF / SOUTH ASIA CHILDREN COVID-19
TRT: 02:00
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: 2 AND 16 APRIL 2020, CAMPS OF HERAT, HERAT, AFGHANISTAN / APRIL 2020 KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN / 29 APRIL 2020, BORDER OF AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN / 9 MAY 2020, DHAKA, BANGLADESH / 7 MAY 2020, DHAKA, BANGLADESH
2 AND 16 APRIL 2020, CAMPS OF HERAT, HERAT, AFGHANISTAN
1. Med shot, mother helping daughter learn how to use a soap to wash her hands
2. Close up, mother is helping daughter learn how to use a soap to wash her hands
3. Wide shot, mother washing hands of her child, using UNICEF built water tap
4. Med shot, mother washing hands of her child, using UNICEF built water tap
APRIL 2020 KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN
5. Med shot, girl reading her book at home
6. Med shot, girl’s brother writing in his book
7. Med shot, girl learning with her father
8. Close up, girl pointing to words on book as she reads
9. Med shot, Soma provides health information to mothers
10. Wide shot, Soma provides health information to mothers
11. Close up, Soma measures child’s arm for malnutrition
12. Med shot, Soma talks about RUTF to a mother
13. Med shot, health worker gives vaccine to a child
14. Med shot, health worker talks to a mother with an information pamphlet
15. Close up, health worker gives medicine to a mother
29 APRIL 2020, BORDER OF AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN
16. Wide shot, staff member on Afghan side of the border sanitizing water containers and taps
17. Wide shot, staff member on Afghan side of the border sanitizing water containers and taps
18. Med shot, returnees washing hands
19. Close up, returnees washing hands
20. Wide shot, returnees washing hands
21. Med shot, health official, wearing protective gear providing information to returnees
22. Wide shot, returnees listening to health official inside hanger
23. Med shot, returnee reading COVID-19 brochure
9 MAY 2020, DHAKA, BANGLADESH
24. Med shot, nurse with PPE taking care of baby inside the NICU
25. Close up, nurse with PPE taking care of baby inside the NICU
26. Close up, nurse with PPE taking care of baby inside the NICU
27. Med shot, doctors and nurses in PPE having their routine meeting about the patients
28. Wide shot, doctors and nurses in PPE having their routine meeting about the patients
7 MAY 2020, DHAKA, BANGLADESH
29. Wide shot, parents and their babies in waiting room
30. Med shot, parents and their babies in waiting room
31. Med shot, baby in mother’s arms as she consults with doctor
32. Close up, doctor filling out immunization record
33. Close up, doctor immunizes baby as mother holds baby
34. Close up, doctor immunizes baby as mother holds baby
35. Close up, mother holds and consoles baby
Lives Upended, a new UNICEF report released today (23 Jun), notes that the rapidly advancing COVID-19 pandemic is expanding across South Asia, a region that is home to a quarter of the world’s population, and is particularly affecting health and educational advances for children.
The report illustrates the disastrous toll of the virus on some 600 million South Asian children, such as growing food insecurity and the disruption of immunization, nutrition and other vital health services, that could be potentially life-threatening for around 459,000 over the next six months.
Meanwhile, school closures have pushed more than 430 million children into remote learning, which has only partially filled the gap as many households in rural areas lack both internet access and electricity.
At the same time, concerns are heightening that some disadvantaged students may join the nearly 32 million children who were already out of school, before COVID-19 struck.
This all comes against a backdrop of children struggling with depression and a surge in calls to help hotlines, as they suffer violence and abuse during home confinement.
The report notes that life-saving vaccination campaigns against measles, polio and other diseases must resume, along with work to help an estimated 7.7 million children – more than half the global total – who are suffering from severe wasting, which impairs physical and mental development.
Moreover, as soon as possible, schools should reopen with adequate handwashing and other physical distancing precautions in place.
The economic shock triggered by COVID-19 is hitting families hard across the region, with large-scale job losses, wage cuts and remittance losses from overseas workers and through tourism.
According to UNICEF projections, as many as 120 million more children could be pushed into poverty and food insecurity over the next six months, joining some 240 million children already classified as poor.
To mitigate the impact, the report maintains that Governments should immediately direct more resources towards social protection schemes, including emergency universal child benefits and school feeding programmes.
