Covid-19 second wave: More cases among kids

For sure, the second wave of the covid-19 is giving shocks with each passing day. Surprisingly, it is affecting the children a lot as they have begun showing mild to moderate symptoms of COVID-19. Looks like, the entire characteristics of the virus seem to have changed. Earlier, children, below 18 years of age, who tested positive for the infection largely remained asymptomatic.

The fresh surge of coronavirus cases has witnessed more paediatric cases in ages more than 10 years and also between 1-8 years.

“Children are having high-grade fever, often 101-102 degrees. The fever stays for a longer period. In the last week, I have treated16 children who are above the age of 10 years and 19 odd patients who are above the age of 10 years,” Dr Dhiren Gupta, intensivist and paediatric specialist at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi said.

Other symptoms in children are blocked nose, abdominal pain and diarrhoea.

Children infected in states with highest covid cases are listed below:

Maharashtra – 60,684 cases

Karnataka – 7327 cases

Chhattisgarh – 5940 cases

Uttar Pradesh – 3004 cases

Delhi – 2733 cases