‘Hidden pandemic’: Peruvian children in crisis as carers die

With 93,000 children in Peru losing a parent to Covid, many face depression, anxiety and poverty

When Covid-19 began shutting down Nilda Lopez's vital organs, doctors decided that the best chance of saving her and her unborn baby was to put her into a coma.

Six months pregnant, Lopez feared she would not wake up, or that if she did, her baby would not be there.