Covid-19 leaves over 12,000 children orphaned in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The data are based on a study conducted between March 16, 2020 and September 24 this year by the National Association of Natural Person Registrars (Arpen-Brazil), an entity representing civil registry offices in the country.

In addition, the study shows that 18.2% were 1 year old; 18.2% were 2 years old; 14.5% were 3 years old; 11.4% were 4 years old; 7.8% were 5 years old, and 2.5% were 6 years old.

The indexes surveyed by Arpen-Brasil, which also manages the Transparency Portal, also showed that 223 parents died before their children were born, while 64 children up to the age of 6 lost their father and mother to the disease.

“The registry offices’ database has been continuously assisting the authorities, laboratories and research institutes to measure the dimension of Covid-19 in Brazil and having this partnership with the Federal Treasury to issue the CPF (individual taxpayer identification) in newborns’ birth certificates enabled us to reach this partial but already impressive figure,” said Arpen-Brasil president Gustavo Renato Fiscarelli.

The survey was based on cross-referencing the parents’ CPFs in birth and death records in Brazil’s 7,645 civil registry offices since 2015, the year they began issuing the document directly on the birth certificates of newborn children nationwide.

São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Ceará, and Paraná were the states registering the most deaths of parents with children among this infant population.

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