TABLE 1.
Summary of the impacts of COVID‐19 on children
| Positive impacts | |
| Childhood development | Learning new educational skills |
| Getting indulged into indoor physical activities | |
| Personality development | |
| Self‐confidence build up | |
| Greater awareness | Awareness about an unknown disease and health |
| Developing inner strength to face such challenges in future | |
| Developing relationships and empathy | Coming more closer to family |
| Forming a bond of love and affection | |
| Developing selfless devotion towards humankind | |
| Dwelling virtues of humanity and empathy at early stage of life | |
| Developing new horizons beyond home and schools | |
| Learning nature's value | Start valuing and caring nature |
| Negative impacts | |
| Effects on education | Loss of quality |
| Deprival of education | |
| Inadequate learning | |
| Lack of digital access | |
| Fall in educational outputs | |
| Wide learning gap between low and high socioeconomic group | |
| Anxiety about the future | Delay in examinations |
| Late beginning of new session | |
| Development of anxiety and frustration about future | |
| Health issues | Lack of outdoor physical activities |
| Prone to various health disorders | |
| Nutritional deficiency | |
| Lack of immunisation | |
| Aggressive behavioural changes | Social isolation |
| Frustration, anger, anxiety, irritation | |
| Lack of competitive zone | Disconnection from schools |
| Loss of enthusiasm and interest to compete | |
| Addiction to social media and the Internet | Cyberbullying |
| Sexual exploitation | |
| Addiction to harmful substances | |
| Increased risks of child exploitation | Deprival of education |
| Domestic violation | |
| Child abuse | |
| Child labour | |
| Impact on disabled children | Lack of provision of educational, nutritional and healthcare services |