About 1.5 million children have lost family members or caregivers due to Covid-19

The National Covid Memorial Wall in London (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

About 1.5 million children have lost a parent, grandparent or primary caregiver due to Covid-19, a new study has estimated.

The research, published in medical journal The Lancet, found more than one million children worldwide experienced the death of one or both parents during the first 14 months of the pandemic while another half a million faced the death of a grandparent caregiver living in their own home.