Angelina Jolie has penned a powerful letter in which she begs for vulnerable children to be protected across the globe amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The Hollywood icon, 44, has written an op-ed in Time magazine that pointed out the fact that kids may be "especially vulnerable" to the pandemic's "secondary" effects.
The activist noted that children are more resistant to its physical symptoms, but are more vulnerable to the other problems caused by the deadly bug.
The mum-of-six wrote: "Isolating a victim from family and friends is a well-known tactic of control by abusers, meaning that the social distancing that is necessary to stop COVID-19 is one that will inadvertently fuel a direct rise in trauma and suffering for vulnerable children."