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The total number of children not returning to their education after the school closures is likely to be significant. The pandemic also risks jeopardizing some of the gains made since 2001 in re-building women and girls’ education following the Taliban regime.  The COVID-19 pandemic is creating additional barriers due to risks—and students’ and parents’ anxiety about risks—associated with children returning to classrooms that are cramped, with no capacity for distancing, often cold, damp and poorly ventilated during the country’s severe winters, and have no or poor hygiene and clean water facilities. The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to drive many women and girls out of education permanently. School closures due to COVID-19, resulting increases in caregiving responsibilities for women and girls, and increases in poverty and unemployment will all make it harder for women and girls to study.  These factors combine in harmful ways with pre-existing discriminatory gender norms, o...

In addition to dropping out of school, education disruption puts girls and young women at increased risk of numerous abuses: child marriage, exploitation, child labor, early pregnancy, and gender-based violence.  School closures, the loss of protective spaces provided by school, lockdowns spent at home and COVID-19 mitigation measures disrupt children›s routine, and place new stressors on parents and caregivers, contributing to an increase in the severity and frequency of domestic violence across the country. School closures represent the loss of a safe space, where girls who are experiencing violence and abuse can find respite, and where there is an opportunity for adults to identify signs of abuse and intervene in their lives. School closures and the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 have increased the risk of reliance on negative coping mechanisms, such as child marriage. With many families losing their means of livelihood, girls are at increased risk of being forced to drop...

Prior to the pandemic, a time-use survey conducted by UN Women confirmed that women are providing the majority of unpaid care and domestic labor in Afghanistan.  Women spent an average of 4.6 hours on childcare compared to 2.3 hours for men; 3.4 hours caring for others compared to 1.3 hours for men; 3.6 hours preparing food compared to 0.4 hours for men; and 7.3 hours on cleaning compared to 1.6 hours for men. In total, women spend an average of 18.7 hours a day on unpaid care and domestic labor compared to 5.6 for men. As outlined in the Gender Alert 4 on the Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Burden of Care and Unpaid Domestic Labor,lockdown and social distancing have significantly exacerbated the already high and disproportionate burden of unpaid care and domestic labor responsibilities women and girls experience in Afghanistan.  Forthcoming research by UN Women found that 83% of women saw an increase in unpaid care work and 80% in unpaid domestic work, compared to 75% and 62%...

COVID-19 most harms children and families with weaker resilience to crisis and shocks. The disruption to education is likely to have the biggest impact on the most marginalized and at-risk children, as the crisis exacerbates pre-existing education disparities and reduces their opportunities to continue their education. Among those most affected are likely to be women and girls from families living in poverty, those living in remote, rural and/or conflict-affected areas, internally displaced and returnee women and girls, and women and girls with disabilities.  Many of these women and girls have limited opportunities to continue learning at home, so the closure of schools is likely to particularly affect their longer-term healthy development. Prior to COVID,19 65% of displaced girls living in hard to reach areas were not enrolled in schools. 36% of households in the hard to reach districted assessed reported loss or diminished access to education. Of the displaced children living...

On 14 March 2020, as a measure to curb the spread of COVID-19, all schools and educational institutions in Afghanistan were closed. More than 9.5 million children in public schools and 500,000 children enrolled in community-based education classes, in addition to the 3.7 million out-of-school children in Afghanistan, have now been out of school for nearly seven months.  On 22 August 2020, government schools across the country reopened for grades 12-7. Private schools were permitted to re-open for grades 12-1. The fact that private school students already have greater access to education than students in government schools is just one indication of the deepening inequalities that are likely to be a widespread consequence of the pandemic. School closures and disruption of education due to the COVID-19 health crisis have already harmed many children in Afghanistan by further weakening their already tenuous access to education. The pandemic coincides with an often worsening and unpredi...

Education is a right for all children and an educated population is essential for building a self-reliant, peaceful, equal, and inclusive Afghan society. Afghanistan’s education system has been severely impacted by decades of conflict, widespread poverty and humanitarian crisis.  Today, funding remains insufficient, as only 3% of Afghanistan’s Gross Domestic Product is allocated to education. International standards state that the government should spend at least 4 to 6% of GDP on education.  The Incheon Declaration and Framework for Action for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 4 recognizes that to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”, least developed countries need to dedicate at least or more than 4 to 6%.  Afghanistan budgets far less than this, and even with this small percentage of funding the country’s education budget continues to be underspent every year.Afghanistan has one of the y...

UN Women, UNICEF and Human Rights Watch jointly issue this fifteenth alert to continue to highlight the gender specific impact of COVID-19 in Afghanistan.  This alert focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and girls’ education and the long-lasting consequences it will have on gender equality, women’s human rights and Afghanistan’s development and peace efforts.  It highlights how the health crisis has further reduced already severely limited access to education for women and girls, and how this is likely to have profound and lasting effects with the potential to undermine progress on women’s rights and gender equality achieved over the last two decades. This alert concludes with a set of recommendations for consideration by national and international stakeholders. UN Women, UNICEF, and Human Rights Watch are committed to advancing the rights of women and girls, including through the COVID-19 crisis.  This alert serves to advance this aim b...

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than a billion students have been affected by school closures and 272 billion days of learning have been lost or disrupted; Existing educational inequalities have been exacerbated by the pandemic –radical inclusion should be the new normal; The systematic collection and analysis of data relating to education during the pandemic is a model for the future that can ensure evidence-based decision and policy-making in education is free from political agendas. We can learn lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic that could make education policies more evidence-based, inclusive, responsive and transparent. A greater focus on anticipating responses, solidarity within and across countries, agility in managing responses and renewed efforts for collaborative actions will make a better normal for the future. 1.The pandemic put a spotlight on the critical nature of schools and education and on the necessity to safeguard education s...

A structural shift is underway globally in personal consumption of services. The Covid-19 pandemic has demolished barriers to adoption of remotely delivered services and short-circuited what otherwise would have been a multi-decade adoption process. Just like the Y2K opportunity and dotcom boom helped India showcase its attractiveness as an offshore destination for information technology (IT) services, the current global pandemic offers a fertile ground for India to emerge as a global leader in remote delivery of personal services. Education, health and fitness delivery have emerged as the first frontiers of this megatrend. Annually, households spend hundreds of billions of dollars on these services and Covid-19 has presented a unique opportunity for India to capture a significant slice of this spend. With gyms and educational institutions across the world shut down and physical access to doctors getting tougher, people have increasingly relied on remote delivery of t...

The  Online Education Technology  market has experienced significant improvements in recent times. This report has all the viewpoints secured answerable for this market's conduct while covering all the focuses from verifiable changes and beginning base year 2020 to 2026.  Components of utmost significance, like drivers & limitations, openings, creation, market players, rivalry, and others, have been concentrated cautiously and remembered for the report to get the ideal image of the market directly and during this study. It likewise has separate parts that incorporate the provincial examinations to image the business sectors with future open doors, followed by the assessed yearly development during the overview period. Market Characteristics The market's development cannot be characterized anytime, which requires the report that incorporates all the central points extending from little to large ones to dodge any unfavorable misfortunes. Components like drivers an...

A total of 320 million learners in India have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and have transitioned to e-learning; With huge regional and household disparities in access to the internet and technology, this transition has not been possible for all students and educators; The rapid shift to e-learning prompted by the pandemic has resurfaced long-standing issues of inequality and a digital divide in India that must be addressed by future economic, education and digitalization policies. The education system in India is facing a new crisis thanks to COVID-19. Besides the effect on short-term learning outcomes, extended school closures will result in a loss in human capital and diminished  economic opportunities  in the long run. Literature suggests that for countries with already low learning outcomes, high dropout rates, low resilience to shock and inadequate infrastructure to build back better the impact on education will be felt even more deeply. India ha...

The staggering impact of COVID-19 on American lives and the economy was understandably the central issue in the  first presidential debate  and the  vice presidential debate . But somehow, critical questions around education were absent in both debates. In fact, according to transcripts of  both   debates , the candidates used the word “school” fifteen times, but not always to describe K-12 education. The word “education” itself was stated just three times. Clearly,  this  is a  school year  like no other. A recent Education Week  analysis  found that 74 percent of the 100 largest school districts in the United States opted exclusively for remote learning, dramatically impacting the education of over 9 million students. At the same time, increasing our nation’s educational achievement is a persistent challenge.  The 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) revealed that American students  performed ...

The prolonged closure of schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic in India may cause a loss of over USD 400 billion in the country's future earnings, besides substantial learning losses, according to a World Bank report. South Asia region stands to lose USD 622 billion from the school closures in the present scenario or up to USD 880 billion in a more pessimistic scenario, it said, adding while the regional loss is largely driven by India, all countries will lose substantial shares of their GDP. The report titled  Beaten or Broken? Informality and Covid-19 in South Asia  claims that South Asia is set to plunge into its worst-ever recession in 2020 as the devastating impacts of Covid-19 on the region's economies linger. "Temporary school closures in all South Asian countries have had major implications for students. They have kept 391 million students out of school in primary and secondary education, further complicating efforts to resolve the learning crisis,” said the...

“It has been six months since I read any book. My school closed in March and I have not been able to study after that,” said 14-year-old Keerti Yadav. She went to the mango orchards with her mother to pluck mangoes in the last week of June. “My mother was not working at that time. Now she has gone back to working as a domestic help and I do the chores at home,” she said. The family has only one multimedia phone and her brother uses it for his online classes. Ever since unlock was announced in the state of Uttar Pradesh, 14-year-old Keerti Yadav started to go to the fields with her mother to help her in agricultural work. Keerti Yadav is a resident of Shravasti district in Uttar Pradesh. Keerti had written her class VIII examinations in March before her school was closed, following the nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Girls like Keerti Yadav in the rural parts of Shravasti district have had to stop attending online classes since boys get to use the mobile phones at...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has lauded India's  Aarogya Setu mobile application for helping health departments to identify Covid-19 clusters. "Aarogya Setu app from India has been downloaded by 150 million users, and has helped city public health departments to identify areas where clusters could be anticipated and expand testing in a targeted way,"  WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a media briefing. The app was launched by the government in April to protect citizens amid Covid-19. It is designed to inform users about any potential risk of coronavirus infection around them, best practices to stay healthy, and relevant/curated medical advisories pertaining to the pandemic. Earlier, the WHO chief had also praised India’s efforts to contain coronavirus spread in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum. Meanwhile, the ministry of health on Tuesday issued guidelines for the management of co-infection of Covid-19 with other seasonal epidemic-prone diseases. ...

Total coronavirus cases in India increased by 55,342 in the last 24 hours to 7.18 million on Tuesday morning, the lowest daily rise since mid-August, data from the health ministry showed. India cured 77,760 covid patients in last 24 hours, taking the total recoveries in India to 62,27,295 cases. Deaths from COVID-19 infections rose by 706 to 109,856, the ministry said. India's  coronavirus case  load topped 7 million on Sunday and the country has added a million cases in just 13 days. It has the second-highest number of infections, behind the United States which is approaching the 8 million mark. Total number of samples tested up to 12th October is 8,89,45,107 including 10,73,014 samples tested yesterday, showed ICMR data. Maharashtra's COVID-19 tally rose to 15,35,315 on Monday with the addition of 7,089 fresh cases, state health department said. The state had reported 10,792 fresh cases on Sunday. The Kerala government on Monday allowed select tourism centers in the sta...

US President Donald  Trump on Sunday declared himself immune from  Covid-19 as he prepares to return to the campaign trail in a fight to regain ground against surging White House rival Joe Biden. "It looks like I'm immune for, I don't know, maybe a long time and maybe a short time, it could be a lifetime, nobody really knows, but I'm immune," Trump said in a Fox News interview, a day after his doctor affirmed he was "You have a president who is immune... so now you have a president who doesn't have to hide in a basement like his opponent," he added -- in a jab at the Democrat Biden and his far more cautious approach to campaigning in a pandemic. It is not yet clear to what degree contracting Covid-19 confers immunity from future infection, with early studies suggesting a few months while newer ones have indicated it could last longer While it acknowledges that -- generally -- a person who recovers from a viral infection is...

US President Donald Trump on Sunday declared himself immune from Covid-19 as he prepares to return to the campaign trail in a fight to regain ground against surging White House rival Joe Biden. "It looks like I'm immune for, I don't know, maybe a long time and maybe a short time, it could be a lifetime, nobody really knows, but I'm immune," Trump said in a Fox News interview, a day after his doctor affirmed he was no longer a transmission risk for the disease. "You have a president who is immune... so now you have a president who doesn't have to hide in a basement like his opponent," he added -- in a jab at the Democrat Biden and his far more cautious approach to campaigning in a pandemic. It is not yet clear to what degree contracting Covid-19 confers immunity from future infection, with early studies suggesting a few months while newer ones have indicated it could last longer. While it acknowledges that -- generally -- a person who reco...

Banerjee, who was speaking after a cabinet meeting, said I ask everybody to follow the COVID-19 safety protocols during the festive season. There are instance of community transmission of novel coronavirus and also the contagion becoming air-borne. West bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged people to strictly adhere to the COVID-19 regulations during the upcoming festive season as there are instances of the virus becoming air-borne and community transmission of the contagion in the state.  Banerjee, who was speaking after a cabinet meeting, said "I ask everybody to follow the COVID-19 safety protocols during the festive season. There are instance of community transmission of novel coronavirus and also the contagion becoming air-borne."  "I request Durga Puja Committees to not allow people without masks in pandals. They should be kept in a separate zone. If puja committees can give masks then it's fine. But we can't expect everyone to do the same,...

West Bengal chief minister  Mamata Banerjee Monday said there are instances of  Covid-19 becoming air borne and the  community transmission of the contagion has started in the state and urged people to strictly adhere to the regulations during the coming festive season. Banerjee, who was speaking after a cabinet meeting, said "I ask everybody to follow the Covid-19 safety protocols during the festive season. There are instance of community transmission of Covid-19 and also the contagion becoming air borne." State chief secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay said measures are being taken bring down the cost of  coronavirus tests and treatment. State Chief secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay said measures are being taken bring down the cost of Covid tests and treatment. However, the Union Health Ministry in India has not issued any warning or advisory as yet with regards to spreading of coronavirus via air. Earlier Mamata Banerjee had even warned of community ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said there are instances of Covid-19 becoming airborne and the community transmission of the contagion has started in the state and urged people to strictly adhere to the regulations during the coming festive season West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that community transmission of Covid-19 has started in the state. Speaking to media after a cabinet meeting, Mamata Banerjee said that instances of coronavirus becoming airborne and community spread have been reported in West Bengal. She also asked people of the state to maintain caution ahead of the upcoming Puja season. "I ask everybody to follow the Covid-19 safety protocols during the festive season. There are instances of community transmission of Covid-19 and also the contagion becoming airborne," Mamata Banerjee said. The chief minister asked people of West Bengal to avoid stepping out during the festive season as much as possible. ...

When will an antidote against  Covid-19  finally become widely available? The answer to this question may eventually be found this month as a handful of  coronavirus  vaccine candidates near the end of late stage clinical trials. At least two vaccine frontrunners — Pfizer and Moderna Inc — are set to release late-stage and Phase 2 results this month. While experts have said vaccines were likely to reach the general public in the March-April 2021, drugmakers have been more ambitious with their calculations, with some firms like Moderna Inc eyeing the emergency-use authorisation route to launch their shots by year end. In fact, Pfizer may also  file for US FDA approval  of its vaccine this month itself, Bloomberg reported. There are 182 vaccine candidates in pre-clinical or clinical trials across the world. Of these, 36 are in clinical trials and nine in final states of human trials. In India, where two vaccines are in phase II trials and t...

Maharashtra's COVID-19 tally on Friday crossed the 15 lakh-mark with 12,134 new cases, a health department official said. The state reported 302 deaths, which took the fatality count to 39,732. A total of 17,323 patients were also discharged from hospitals. The state now has 2,36,491 active cases.  Mumbai city reported 2,289 positive cases, which pushed its overall case count to 2,25,073. Meanwhile, a report prepared by the National Control for Disease Control has cautioned that Delhi needs to gear up to tackle the surge of 15,000 COVID-19 cases per day in winters. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday announced that the MPSC exam scheduled to be held on October 11 has been postponed. This is for the third time the government has postponed th exam. CM Uddhav Thackeray said there was a demand from the candidates that they needed more time to prepare for the exam as libraries in the state are still shut due to COVID-19 Ambiguous rules of insurance for...

According to PMC data tabled during the weekly review, 5,873 new cases were recorded in the week from October 2 to 8, which is 7,500 cases less than the new patient count of 13,373 recorded between September 4 and 10. IN A month’s gap, the  Covid-19  situation in the city has witnessed a “drastic” change with a drop of 56 per cent in new cases in the first week of October as compared to the same time period the previous month, even as testing reduced by 28 per cent. According to PMC data tabled during the weekly review, 5,873 new cases were recorded in the week from October 2 to 8, which is 7,500 cases less than the new patient count of 13,373 recorded between September 4 and 10. The testing, however, has reduced in the last one month. In the week from September 4 to 10, total testing was 43,906 while it gradually reduced to 31,529 from October 2 to 8. So, testing fell by 28.12 per cent in the first week of October as compared to the same time period in September...

पुण्यातील कोरोनाचा आढावा घेण्यासाठी केंद्र शासनाच्यावतीने आलेल्या द्विसदस्यीय शिष्टमंडळाने डिसेंबर-जानेवारीमध्ये कोरोनाची दुसरी लाट येण्याची शक्यता व्यक्त केली आहे. त्यादृष्टीने पालिकेने तयारी करावी. खाटांच्या उपलब्धतेविषयी सतर्क राहावे अशा प्रकारच्या सूचना या शिष्टमंडळाने पालिका प्रशासनाला केल्या आहेत.   यासोबतच पालिकेने उभे केलेले 'इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर', रुग्णालयातील सुधारणा, खाटांचे नियोजन आणि कोरोना रुग्णांवर योग्यरित्या उपचार होण्यासंदर्भात राबविलेल्या उपाययोजनांविषयी या शिष्टमंडळाने समाधान व्यक्त केले. केंद्र शासनाच्या ज्या अपेक्षा आहेत त्याप्रमाणे महानगरपालिका सक्षमपणे काम करीत असल्याचे निरीक्षण या शिष्टमंडळाने नोंदवले. यासंदर्भात शिष्टमंडळातील सदस्यांशी संपर्क साधला असता, त्यांनी पुण्यामध्ये समाधानकारक काम झाल्याचे सांगितले.  पुण्यातील कोरोनाच्या सद्यःस्थितीचा आढावा घेण्यासाठी शहरात आलेल्या डॉ. अरविंद कुशवाह आणि डॉ. बॅनर्जी यांनी गेल्या चार दिवसात पुण्यातील विविध कोविड सेंटरमध्ये भेट दिली.  शहरातील उपाययोजनांची माहिती घेऊन महापालिकेत बैठका घेऊन काही...

A Trump administration official leading the response to the  coronavirus  pandemic says the U.S. can expect delivery of a vaccine starting in January 2021,  despite statements from the President  that inoculations could begin this month. And a growing, bipartisan chorus of lawmakers, experts and public health officials says the country is ill prepared for a projected winter surge of COVID-19 Dr. Robert Kadlec said in an email Friday that the administration “is accelerating production of safe and effective vaccines ... to ensure delivery starting January 2021.” Dr. Kadlec is the Department of Health and Human Services’ assistant secretary of preparedness and response. HHS says a vaccine could be approved before the end of the year but will take time to distribute. President Donald Trump has said at rallies, debates and press conferences that a vaccine could arrive within weeks. “We think we can start sometime in October,” Mr. Trump said at a White House pr...

When will an antidote against  Covid-19  finally become widely available? The answer to this question may eventually be found this month as a handful of  coronavirus  vaccine candidates near the end of late stage clinical trials. At least two vaccine frontrunners — Pfizer and Moderna Inc — are set to release late-stage and Phase 2 results this month. While experts have said vaccines were likely to reach the general public in the March-April 2021, drugmakers have been more ambitious with their calculations, with some firms like Moderna Inc eyeing the emergency-use authorisation route to launch their shots by year end. In fact, Pfizer may also  file for US FDA approval  of its vaccine this month itself, Bloomberg reported. There are 182 vaccine candidates in pre-clinical or clinical trials across the world. Of these, 36 are in clinical trials and nine in final states of human trials. In India, where two vaccines are in phase II trials and the one by Oxford...