India’s federal government will provide educational scholarships, mental health counselling and health insurance to children who have been orphaned by the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. “For those who have lost a loved one to coronavirus, the change it has brought to their lives is so difficult,” Modi said during an online event as he announced government benefits for minor children who have lost both parents to COVID-19. During the second wave in 2021, many children were left without a carer because both parents were ill and hospitalized with COVID-19, raising alarm bells among activists and government officials. YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNERevealed! Details Of South-West APC Leaders Meeting With Presidential AspirantsIndia to provide scholarships, counselling to those orphaned by COVID-19MORE revelations have emerged about Friday’s meeting held by South-West leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with aspirants from the zone, whose main objective, was on how to avert a crisis that will create a fractured party as it prepares for primary on May 30 and 31, Sunday Tribune has reliably gathered…Supreme Court Has Cleared Civil Servants To Participate In Politics, Falana Tells FGIndia to provide scholarships, counselling to those orphaned by COVID-19

Source: Nigerian Tribune May 31, 2022 05:53 UTC