Dr Randeep Guleria, the director of Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), said on Tuesday that there is no evidence to suggest that the next wave of Covid-19 will cause serious infection in children. “I don’t think we will have a serious infection in children in the future,” said Guleria during a press briefing of the Union ministry of health and family welfare.
Guleria said data collected from both the waves of the coronavirus pandemic in the country showed that neither new variants nor the old ones caused severe infection in children. “No data, global or Indian, has had any observations of children being affected more. Even in the data from the second wave kids who were infected had mild illness or co-morbidities,” he said. “In many parts of the world where new…
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