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  • 6 Covid deaths reported in Chandigarh, Mohali, none in Panchkula

    By: Express News Service | Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula |
    June 18, 2021 6:20:01 am
    The Tricity reported six new Covid-19 associated deaths on Friday. No deaths have been reported from Panchkula. There are 1,189 energetic instances in Tricity at current, with most energetic instances in Mohali at 627.
    Chandigarh: 3 deaths, 32 new instances
    The UT reported 32 new Covid instances, taking the tally to 61,310. Three individuals additionally succumbed to the virus, taking the deaths to 802. The energetic instances stood at 432, after 96 sufferers have been discharged.
    A 90-year-old lady from Sector 43, a case of diabetes mellitus, extreme kidney illness and lung illness expired at Healing Hospital. A 77-year-old man from Manimajra, a case of diabetes mellitus, hypertension and acute kidney damage, expired at GMSH-16. A 57-year-old man from Sector 44, a case of hypertension, extreme acute respiratory misery syndrome, coronary artery illness and acute kidney damage, handed away at Fortis Hospital, Mohali.
    As many as 6922 individuals have been vaccinated on Thursday.
    Mohali: 3 deaths, 38 instances
    Three extra Covid associated deaths have been reported in Mohali on Thursday, taking the variety of fatalities to 1,036. As many as 38 optimistic instances have been additionally reported, growing the variety of instances to 67,958 with 627 energetic.
    DC Girish Dayalan stated {that a} most of 11 instances have been reported from Mohali (city), adopted by ten from Kharar, seven from Derabassi, six from Dhakoli, and 4 from Banur.
    The DC additional said that 70 sufferers had additionally recovered, additional stating {that a} whole of 66,295 sufferers have recovered as but.

    Panchkula: No dying, eight instances
    Panchkula on Friday noticed 15 new Covid instances, and no new fatalities.
    Out of the 15 instances, eight have been added to the district tally, whereas the remainder have been added to the surface district rely. The energetic case tally was recorded at 130, whereas the restoration price stood at 98.37 per cent with 30,009 recoveries.

    A complete of 40,160 instances have thus far been reported from the district, of which 30,505 hail from Panchkula. As many as 366 individuals in whole have succumbed to the virus right here.
    Panchkula district has performed 3,53,867 assessments thus far, with at the least 747 samples being collected on Friday.

  • After shedding dad and mom to Covid, Surat siblings now fend for themselves

    When the second wave of Covid-19 hit within the nation, Smit Narola, 17, and his elder sister Madhavi – like many different kids throughout the nation – misplaced their dad and mom to the an infection. That too inside a niche of two weeks.
    Nareshbhai Narola (44) and his spouse Rekha (42) died of Covid-19 on April 29 and April 14 respectively, leaving each Smit and Madhavi orphaned.
    The two kids residing in Surat’s Yogi Chowk, dominated by migrants from Saurashtra, are actually left to fend for themselves.

    Madhvi is doing her Bachelors in Computer Management from S V Patel College in Surat, whereas Smit had cleared his Class 11 from Neel Madhav college at Yogi chowk and is now in Class 12.
    Originally from Khakhariya village in Palitana of Bhavnagar, Smit mentioned, “Now I have to take care of my elder sister. My father was working in an embroidery factory at Varachha. My sister had started taking tuitions for children of our neighbours. I have started selling toys and home ware items through e-commerce. Parents of my classmates helped me start this business… What I have learnt is not to break down, my sister motivates me and supports me.”
    Prince Ranipa, 19, had accomplished his first 12 months of BBA and his 16-year outdated sister Misri had completed Class 10 boards when their mom Shilpa died of Covid on May 8 within the Surat Civil hospital. The siblings had already misplaced their father Jitendra Kumar who was employed in Surat, to a street accident in 2008. Shilpa had then began embellishment work on sarees and gown supplies.
    With her demise, Prince has began distributing newspapers within the morning and works in a store to fend for his sister and grandmother Savitaben.
    Prince, who’s enrolled with Maliba faculty, instructed The Indian Express, “I am worried about what I should do to continue my studies. At present we are surviving with the savings and money which we have borrowed from relatives. We are staying in a rented one-room kitchen house. We have told the owner to give us relaxations for a few months…”
    He has utilized for jobs at personal companies and is ready for his or her response.
    The Shree Saurashtra Patel Seva Samaj a voluntary organisation in Surat, has prolonged monetary assist to some 150 kids, like Prince and Misri, who misplaced dad and mom or breadwinners to Covid.

    Shree Saurashtra Patel Sewa Samaj president Kanji Bhalara mentioned, “The financial help was provided by some of the trustees, Lions club of Coppell in USA for those who had lost their parents to Covid-19. We have got applications from 1,000 widows who had lost their family members due to the infection in Surat… The beneficiaries were given cheques”.

  • Muslims avoiding Covid vaccination, says former Uttarakhand CM Rawat

    SENIOR BJP chief and former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Monday mentioned the Muslim neighborhood within the nation is avoiding Covid vaccination because it has apprehensions and misconceptions in regards to the vaccine.
    “The Muslim community in our country at present – I am deliberately taking name – is keeping away from vaccination. They still have hesitation, apprehensions and misconceptions,” mentioned Rawat whereas talking to reporters at an occasion on World Blood Donor Day in Rishikesh.
    He appealed social organisations and the media to boost consciousness locally that the vaccine will not be dangerous.
    “If you do not take the vaccine, this disease will not get over and anybody can fell prey to it and we can become a super spreader. I appeal all to come forward for vaccination,” Rawat mentioned, including that herd immunity can be developed when 80 per cent of the inhabitants is vaccinated.
    The former CM mentioned the Pakistan authorities has introduced stern measures akin to blocking telephones and stopping salaries of those that are avoiding vaccination. Such steps can create consciousness amongst plenty, he mentioned.

    The Uttarakhand authorities on Monday prolonged the Covid curfew until June 22. Announcing adjustments in the usual working process, authorities spokesperson Subodh Uniyal mentioned native folks from the district involved can be allowed to go to shrines of Char Dham however with detrimental RTPCR stories. People in Chamoli district can be allowed to go to Badrinath, Rudraprayag district residents can go to Kedarnath and Uttarkashi district folks can go to Gangotri and Yamunotri shrines. He mentioned the state authorities might begin unlockdown after June 22.

  • Nod for movie, TV shoots in Mumbai if every day COVID-19 case rely underneath management: Maha CM

    Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday stated permission for movie and TV shootings in Mumbai could be granted if the town’s every day coronavirus case rely is introduced underneath management.
    In a digital interplay with the representatives of the movie and tv business, he appealed to them to cooperate with the federal government within the measures being taken to battle the pandemic. “After the second wave of COVID-19, film and TV shootings were stopped in the state, but now the number of cases have started getting under control and the unlock process has also begun,” he stated.

    Thackeray stated movie and TV producers have to comply with all COVID-19 security guidelines and take precautions in the course of the shoots. “We should ensure that we do not get knocked down by the virus,” he stated.
    Several distinguished actors, anchors and others linked to the leisure business, together with Aadesh Bandekar, Nitin Vaidya, Prashant Damle, Bharat Jadhav, Subodh Bhave, Amol Kolhe, J D Mathijia, Amit Behl, Punit Goenka, Ajay Bhalvankar, Sangamon Shirke, Vijay Kenkre,Sharad Ponkshe, Siddharth Roy Kapur, participated within the assembly.

  • Terms of unlock: positivity beneath 5%, 70% of weak teams vaccinated

    Positivity fee of lower than 5 per cent for per week, vaccination of 70 per cent of the weak inhabitants, and group possession of Covid-appropriate behaviour and care — the Centre on Tuesday laid down key un-lockdown standards for districts to chase away a doable third wave.
    On Tuesday, Dr Balram Bhargava, ICMR Director General and a member of India’s Covid-19 process pressure, underlined that whereas “gradual lifting [of restrictions] will not witness a massive surge”, districts need to “ensure that vaccination has to be prioritised…”
    “In terms of preventing the third wave, it is very simple that districts with less than 5 per cent positivity should open up a little bit… they should open very gradually. They should ensure that the vulnerable population should achieve at least 70 per cent vaccination… if that has not been achieved, they should vaccinate them and then open up,” Bhargava stated.
    Bhargava’s assertion comes within the backdrop of 344 districts — practically half of India’s 718 districts — now reporting seven-day positivity of lower than 5 per cent. That’s an enchancment from the week ending May 7, when solely 92 districts reported a positivity fee of beneath 5 per cent, the Ministry stated.
    According to the Health Ministry’s vaccination knowledge, as of May 13, 32 per cent of these within the 45+ age group have gotten their first dose.
    “We are in the midst of a ferocious second wave, although it has been abating now. If we look at the data, in the first week of April, we had less than 200 districts that had more than 10 per cent positivity. And in the last week of April, we had nearly 600 districts with more than 10 per cent positivity… Today, there are 239 districts in the country which have more than 10 per cent positivity; 145 districts are between 5 per cent-10 per cent positivity; and 350 districts, which is nearly half of India, have less than 5 per cent positivity. Therefore, we are moving in the right direction,” Bhargava stated.

    He stated that whereas district-level containment has labored, it’s “not a sustainable solution” and thus, a mechanism to ease lockdowns must be labored out. “It has to be done very gradually and very slowly. Basically, the opening up revolves around three pillars: one, the test positivity rate in that particular district has to be less than 5 per cent over one week… so seven-day average has to be less than 5 per cent. Second, vulnerable individuals, that is elderly more than 60 years and more than 45 years with comorbidities, should be vaccinated. Their vaccination rate should reach up to 70 per cent… Third, community ownership for Covid-appropriate behaviour and care should be taken up… in a big way… We have to remember our vaccination is being ramped up. By December, we hope to have the whole country vaccinated…,” Bhargava stated.
    On Tuesday, the pinnacle of India’s Covid-19 process pressure, Dr V Ok Paul, stated India will stick with the two-dose schedule for Covishield and Covaxin, and clarified that mixing of vaccines shouldn’t be a part of the nation’s vaccine technique.

    “I want to make it clear that Covishield and Covaxin schedule in India is a two-dose schedule, there is absolutely no change. There should be no doubts about it. We have to compulsorily take two doses,” Paul stated.
    “Similarly, on mixing of vaccines… there is one possibility that the body can show adverse reaction with the second vaccine. This is a scientific consideration, especially when the other vaccine is built on a different platform. The other science also indicates that if the first dose is of one vaccine and the second dose is of another, there could be an increase in immunity. The possibility of a positive effect is also plausible… there is research going on in other countries. It is an unresolved scientific question… there is no change in the vaccination strategy and there is no mixing of vaccines,” Paul stated.
    Dr N Ok Arora, chairman of the Covid-19 working group beneath the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI), had earlier instructed The Indian Express that work on testing the feasibility of a routine that mixes two Covid vaccines may start quickly. “We are looking for a combination of vaccines that provide better protection. At the moment, the vaccines used are providing protection against severe disease, but they are not providing protection from infection and transmission of the virus to the extent that we would have liked,” he stated.
     

  • Kerala: 2nd Covid-19 surge sees rise in instances amongst tribals

    While 7.67 per cent of the overall inhabitants has examined constructive for Covid, solely 3.59 per cent of the full tribal inhabitants in Kerala has contracted the illness to this point, based on knowledge. But the key chunk of those infections amongst tribal communities has been reported inside the final two months, based on knowledge.
    By the tip of January, round 3,000 tribals had contracted the an infection, however this determine reached 17,401 as per knowledge on May 31. Of the 8,815 Covid-related deaths in Kerala, 146 have been of tribals — the toll stood at 35 on the finish of January.
    The inhabitants of tribal communities within the state is pegged at 4.84 lakh as per the final Census.
    According to officers in Kerala’s tribal division, restrictions on entry to tribal hamlets, low prevalence of life-style ailments amongst tribals, and application proven by numerous departments had helped these communities cushion the influence of the pandemic within the first wave.
    However, instances began spiking in current months pointing to elevated publicity throughout the second wave of the pandemic. And some officers say the sale of spurious liquor and the Assembly ballot campaigns could also be responsible.
    “During the Assembly elections, the endangered communities got exposed to the general population. Around 80 per cent of the confirmed cases reported among tribals happened in the last two months. Many settlements are now frequented by the general population who came in search of hooch, which is rampant among tribals. This has also contributed to a sudden spike in cases. At present, in some tribal belts, the test positivity rate is at 50 per cent,” officers mentioned.
    However, officers mentioned the scenario is totally different in Attappadi, the state’s solely tribal block the place 40 per cent of the inhabitants is tribal and the place the overall inhabitants is extra affected by the pandemic. Of the two,259 instances reported in Attappadi, 816 have been amongst tribals, whereas 5 members of the tribal group have been among the many whole 23 Covid-related deaths within the space.
    The state authorities has determined to vaccinate all tribals aged above 18 regardless of comorbidities, contemplating the vulnerability of tribal communities.
    “A rough estimate shows 3 lakh tribals above the age of 18 have to be vaccinated immediately. Concept of social distancing would not work among these groups. The only solution to insulate them is to give vaccine shots to as many people as possible. So far, 74,000 tribals have got one dose of vaccine,” mentioned an official.

  • Convict at Meerut jail cites Covid, refuses parole

    Citing the pandemic, a convicted prisoner on the Chaudhary Charan Singh District Prison in Meerut has refused the particular parole granted to him, saying he felt safer incarcerated than being launched and threat catching the virus.
    The Supreme Court had directed the state authorities to decongest district prisons in view of the pandemic. The Meerut prisoner is amongst 21 convicts throughout 9 jails in Uttar Pradesh who’ve requested that they not take up the particular parole and stay incarcerated, officers mentioned.
    Ashish Kumar is serving a six-year sentence on the Meerut jail over abetting his spouse suicide over dowry in Ghaziabad’s Shastri Nagar space in 2015. A instructor at a personal faculty, Kumar was arrested by Meerut police in 2016.
    Following directives from the UP authorities, 43 convicted prisoners at Meerut jail had been shortlisted for being launched.
    Meerut jail SSP B P Pandey mentioned, “We have sent his request to the government for approval and we have got a green signal, which means that the prisoner in question will remain in jail till he completes his sentence of six years.”

  • 49 lakh to 21: mobility knowledge pegs Kumbh’s numbers down

    EVEN because the second Covid wave raged throughout the nation, the Uttarakhand authorities formally introduced that on the three key days of the Kumbh, April 12, 13, and 14, a complete of 49 lakh devotees had taken a dip within the Ganga at Har Ki Pauri and linked ghats in Hardwar.
    Under fireplace for this gathering — the Uttarakhand High Court final week known as holding Kumbh a “mistake” — officals within the state authorities and the district administration, after an in depth assessment, have assessed that the attendance determine was nearly 70% down, to an estimated 15 lakh, for these three days.
    When contacted, Sanjay Gunjyal, Inspector General of Police, Kumbh Mela, stated: “The footfall on April 12 was only 21 lakh; on April 13 around 3 lakh and on April 14, about 12 lakh.”
    This is sharply decrease than what the federal government had claimed earlier. In April, it had stated over 31 lakh individuals took a dip on the second shahi shan on April 12; 4.5 lakh on April 13; and over 13.5 lakh on April 14.
    Asked about this important downward revision, Gunjyal instructed The Indian Express: “The earlier data was based on headcount. But the data for April 12 had been miscalculated by adding data of other days as well.”
    Senior officers stated the precise crowd was a lot decrease, at about 15 lakh, in comparison with Gunjyal’s revised estimate of 36 lakh.
    This, they stated, relies on a assessment of all key mobility indicators, which embrace occupancy figures for all inns within the district, vacancies in registered parking tons, cellphone presence accessed from cell towers, and passenger visitors for automobiles and on all trains to and from Hardwar.
    On April 1, when the Kumbh formally began, there have been 626 lively instances within the district, that quantity went as much as 11,075 on April 30 — there have been 90 deaths in April.
    Consider the important thing mobility findings:
    Between April 10-15, a complete of 9.55 lakh individuals got here to Haridwar utilizing automobiles, two-wheelers, buses.
    Less than 40,000 got here by trains throughout this era. Railway knowledge exhibits that the particular Kumbh practice, introduced for April 1, began solely on April 12 and departed with solely 140 passengers onboard in opposition to a capability of 1,200. The subsequent day, the practice was cancelled due to low visitors. A complete of solely 38 trains (19 Up and 19 Down) ran throughout the Kumbh as in comparison with over 100 in 2010.
    A complete of 10.95 lakh individuals checked into the 537 inns and the 260 dharamshalas for the five-day interval.
    Total variety of out-of-state cellphones logged in as per all cell tower knowledge between April 11 and 14: 1.68 lakh.
    Mela Officer Deepak Rawat stated: “Clearly, the footfall was much lower than what has been presented. It was negligible in all ghats (there are 107 ghats in the mela area) other than Har Ki Pauri.”
    “Even if we assume that the 5 lakh population of Haridwar municipal area took the holy dip, total strength is still less than the figure claimed by the Government,” stated a senior official. Taking even this under consideration, the gang numbers don’t swell past 21 lakh, the official stated.
    Sources stated one motive for displaying massive crowds may very well be political. While outgoing Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat didn’t need to touch upon this, Uttarakhand Congress Senior Vice-President Suryakant Dhasmana stated the state authorities exaggerated the footfall knowledge to indicate it efficiently organised a grand mela and to justify utilisation of the finances.
    “The footfall was less than the figures claimed by the government. With such exaggerated data, the state government tried to cover-up its failure in making preparations, essential to protect devotees from Covid,” he stated.
    When contacted, Cabinet Minister and authorities spokesperson Subodh Uniyal stated figures of footfall introduced by administration had been appropriate. “But it is also true that footfall was less on shahi snan this time as compared to previous Kumbh. Common people came in very less number, mainly saints who stayed during Kumbh,” he stated.

  • IMA slams Ramdev, writes to PM demanding motion in opposition to his ‘misinformation campaign’

    The Medical fraternity has slammed Ramdev’s “irrational and ridiculous” statements on how trendy drugs was killing Covid-19 sufferers, and that 10,000 docs died as a result of vaccination, saying this was a “clear cut case of sedition”. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) stated, “This, in our opinion, is a clear-cut case of sedition and such persons should be booked immediately without any delay.”
    Top officers of the IMA, of their letter, stated the “misinformation campaign” began by Ramdev needed to be stopped” and “appropriate action needs to be taken against individuals propagating fear about vaccination”.
    The IMA has pointed to 2 viral movies, during which Patanjali proprietor Ramdev, is seen claiming that 10,000 docs had died regardless of taking each doses of the vaccine and lakhs had died on account of allopathic drugs, calling it a “stupid science”.
    The IMA’s Uttarakhand department has served a defamation discover to Ramdev for the remarks in opposition to allopathy and allopathic docs, demanding an apology from him inside 15 days failing which they may demand a compensation of Rs 1,000 crore.
    “Only 0.06 per cent people, who received both the (vaccine) doses got minimal infection and, very rarely, vaccinated people had severe lung infection,” stated Dr J A Jayalal, nationwide president of IMA.
    Dr Jayesh Lele, honorary secretary basic of IMA, nationwide headquarters, informed The Indian Express that trendy drugs professionals adopted pointers and protocols issued by the well being ministry via Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) or the nationwide activity drive in therapy supplied at hospitals. “If someone is claiming that allopathic medicine has killed people, it is an attempt to challenge the ministry, which has issued the protocol for treatment to us as well as the office of Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) and Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO),” Dr Lele stated.
    The letter has additionally closely criticised Ramdev for spreading rumours, falsehood and superstitions among the many public via “false, scurrilous and malicious” statements that might discourage folks from getting the jab.
    “By committing acts that have disturbed and are likely to further disturb public tranquility, he is getting success in persuading people, contrary to the campaign of the Government of India for vaccination of the entire country. This is against national interest and clearly constitutes as an offence,” IMA officers have stated.
    “We have lost 753 doctors in the first wave and 513 in the second wave. None in the first wave could receive the vaccine and a majority, who died in the second wave, also couldn’t take their vaccine. Now, deceitfully attributing 10,000 people have died in spite of two doses of vaccination, is a deliberate move to stall efforts to reach out to the masses, and it needs to be curtailed immediately,” stated the highest brass of IMA.
    Doctors additionally talked about stories from totally different components of the nation, the place frontline staff tasked with conducting vaccination drives, together with ASHAs, have been being affected by these “misleading assertions” by Ramdev. They stated frontline staff have been being attacked by folks falling for such rumours.
    Dr Ravi Wankhedkar, former nationwide president of IMA and treasurer of World Medical Association, stated he had posed inquiries to Ramdev, pertaining to his academic qualification and if he believed within the rule of regulation to practise drugs and promote medication as per the Drugs and Cosmetics Act.

    “We are not against any medicine promoted by the ministry and are happy to share the drugs promoted by AYUSH ministry in most of our public health treatment centres. We opposed certain drugs being falsely promoted as ‘curative’ drugs, without any approval from the ministry or competent authorities. The AYUSH ministry had also issued a press release to Patanjali to stop advertising/claiming its drug Coronil as a cure for Covid-19,” Dr Wankhedkar stated.
    “I have challenged Ramdev to an open debate. We have received a response to an RTI query from DCGI that permission was not given to Coronil for treating Covid-19,” Dr Wankhedkar stated.
    Doctors from IMA are additionally dissatisfied with lack of response from the Centre to a few of their points. “We have supported the government in their efforts to vaccinate people and offered to set up free vaccination centres at IMA. However, there has been no response,” Dr Lele stated.

    “The government does not bother about IMA,” stated some high officers, who requested anonymity. There are 26 state branches, one other 1,700 native branches and greater than 3.5 lakh docs with IMA, however there’s a rising sense of disenchantment with the Centre for failing to deal with their grievances. More than 1,200 docs died of Covid-19 however solely 200 have been compensated.
    “We are not opposing the government, but what we do is offer constructive criticism,” Dr Jayalal informed The Indian Express.

  • Surat: Three-fold spike in Covid instances amongst children in second wave

    MORE CHILDREN beneath 10 years in Surat metropolis are contaminated by the novel coronavirus illness within the second wave of the pandemic in comparison with the primary, based on the information shared by Surat civic authorities.
    More than 560 youngsters, all as much as 10 years, examined constructive for the virus within the first wave of Covid-19, whereas the instances elevated practically three-fold with round 1,700 youngsters being affected in the course of the second wave. However, no fatality was reported among the many age group.
    The information comes amid apprehensions that youngsters could be severely contaminated in the course of the third Covid-19 wave. AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria, nevertheless, lately said that the fears weren’t based mostly on information.
    According to the information shared by Surat Municipal Corporation’s (SMC) well being division, between April and December 2020, the primary wave of Covid-19, a complete of 564 instances amongst minors as much as 10 years had been reported in Surat metropolis. Among them, the bottom, as much as 15 instances, had been recorded in May 2020 whereas the best quantity
    of 138 instances was recorded in October. In August 2020, as many as 128 instances had been recorded amongst youngsters within the age group.
    SMC commissioner B N Pani mentioned, “This year, the Covid-19 cases among minors are high compared to last year. These minors (up to 10 years), who were infected, were asymptomatic and have recovered. Several of these children were detected during our test drives conducted through Dhanvantri Raths and other testing centres, and also by private paediatricians and family doctors.”
    In the second wave of the pandemic, between January 2021 and May 20, as many as 1,696 instances had been recorded among the many identical age group in Surat metropolis. The most variety of 1,185 instances had been recorded in April alone, adopted by 274 instances in March. In February, 5 instances had been recorded.
    SMC deputy well being commissioner Dr Ashish Naik mentioned, “In both the first and second waves, no fatality among minors were reported in Surat city.”
    In each the primary and second phases, the best variety of instances was recorded from the company’s South-West zone (Athwalines) the place in 2020, a complete of 118 instances had been recorded, whereas up to now 5 months (the second wave), 500 instances had been recorded from this a part of town. Athwalines space is among the many posh areas within the metropolis with all the mandatory infrastructure and well being amenities.
    The SMC has already began making ready for the third wave and has carried out conferences with docs from the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and paediatricians within the metropolis. Pani mentioned, “We have planned to create separate wards at the New Civil Hospital (NCH) and SMIMER Hospitals which will be well-equipped. We have procured around 100 oxygen concentrators.” He added that paediatricians have been suggested to stay well-equipped.
    The SMC, he added, was additionally planning to introduce a chapter on Covid-19 in class syllabi. “We have prepared a chapter in which students will be given information on Covid-19, the difference between virus and bacteria, RNA and DNA viruses, communicable and non-communicable diseases, how the infection happens, ways to prevent it and how long it will remain in the body, why a mask is important during Covid and also non-Covid period, on the importance of vaccination among other things. Through this, we want to develop Covid-appropriate behaviour among the younger generation. The contents of this chapter have been prepared by the SMC health department officials and in the coming days we will distribute among private and municipal schools in the city as well,” Pani mentioned.
    Dr Ketan Bharadva, a paediatrician, mentioned, “We have come across several minors who got infected and were asymptomatic or with mild symptoms. We treated them accordingly and got better results. In some cases, we also found Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome of Children (MIS-C), which can affect the heart and lead to a brain stroke. Such patients were also successfully treated. In most such cases, the children got the infection from their parents. We have made arrangements to deal with more Covid patients, especially minors, during the third phase.”