The will look after children who have been orphaned during thepandemic, irrespective of the fact if their parents died due to Covid or some other ailment. Thehealth departmenthas issued an order to all districts in this regard. The nodal officers, including the medical staff at the district levels, will provide details of such children on the child helpline number 1098, following which thechild commissionwill prepare a list of minors to be handed over to the state government.
During the second wave of pandemic, with the death toll rising, many messages of child adoption started doing the rounds on Social Media. According to these messages minors whose parents have succumbed to Covid can be adopted. The registered orphanages said that till now they have not got any children whose parents died due to Covid. They added that in the coming days these calls might start pouring in.