Covid-19 leaves hundreds orphaned. How you can help and what you should know about adoption

More than 1,700 children have lost both their parents during the Covid-19 pandemic in India, the NCPCR has informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Who will look after these children? What does the future hold in store for these vulnerable kids? Read on to know how you can help them and everything about adoption in India.

Mamta and Nanjundegowda spent years waiting to be blessed with a child. The couple, from Mandya district in Karnataka, had spent almost a decade trying for a child. In May this year, the couple's prayers were finally answered and they were blessed with a baby girl. Please adopt child legally.Don't indulge in illegal activities in the guise of child adoption.Illegal adoption amounts to child trafficking and is punishable offence under JJ Act, 2015 and IPC.@MinistryWCD @PIBWCD @mygovindia @NCPCR_ @NCWIndia @CHILDLINE1098 @DDNational pic.twitter.com/boXUe6JSrq The happiness was short-lived. Covid-19, the viral disease that has caused a worldwide pandemic, took away the parents of the baby girl before she could even be named. The baby's father died of Covid-19 five days before she was born. The mother passed away five days after delivery. The baby girl herself caught the infection but recovered after treatment.