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Millions of pregnant moms, babies under threat

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KABUL (Pajhwok): Around 116 million babies would be born across the globe -- a quarter of them in South Asia -- under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF said on Thursday.  

Approximately 29 million of these babies would be born in South Asia. They are projected to be born up to 40 weeks after the COVID-19 pandemic, which is currently straining health.

South Asian countries with the expected highest numbers of births in the nine months since . . .

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