Doctors, parents and officials across India say that more children are being infected with Covid-19 and need medical intervention in the devastating second wave of the pandemic than in the first wave last year. But a noticeable medical difference in the second wave is that infected children are more symptomatic than they were last year,” said Dr Digant Shastri, former president of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. Most are symptomatic – they may not get very unwell but need medical intervention,” said Dr Shrikanta JT, pediatric pulmonologist at Aster RV Hospital, Bangalore. Parents with Covid-19 have to find caretakers for their children not infected with the virus. Healthy parents have to be isolated from their infected children.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 29, 2021 04:07 UTC