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World Grapples with Consequences of Fighting the Virus

The United Nations is warning of new risks to children and a subsequent plague of mental illness. And governments are noting the unintended consequences of lockdowns and other restrictions.

The world is grappling with the unintended consequences of fighting the virus.

The coronavirus is wreaking havoc on people’s health around the world in ways that at first glance have little to do with the devastating primary effects of the virus.

The United Nations is warning of new risks to children and a subsequent plague of mental illness. And national governments are noting the unintended consequences of lockdowns and other restrictions, including a rise in domestic violence.

Millions of children are at risk of dying, the United Nations warned not of Covid-19, but of preventable causes. Unable to access care at hospitals straining to fight the virus.

At least 70 have died across Mexico since late April from tainted alcohol.

At least 70 people have died across Mexico since late April after drinking tainted alcohol, a rash of deaths officials attributed to the imposition of dry laws meant to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

As the outbreak has worsened in Mexico, some local and state governments have banned the sale of alcohol to discourage people from gathering in groups or having parties.

The federal government has also declared breweries as nonessential businesses, forcing them to shut down and leading to widespread beer shortages.

These restrictions, may have driven more people than usual to buy alcohol on the black market.

Mexico already had a robust illegal trade in alcoholic beverages that have been adulterated or produced under unregulated conditions, and in the past, Mexicans have been sickened and even killed by tainted alcohol.

But the surge of alcohol-related deaths in the past two weeks is unusually high.

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