Over 350 kids infected in past two weeks in Haveri

Haveri: Experts have warned that the novel coronavirus' new variant will affect children in the third wave. After the third wave started in Haveri, over 354 children have contracted Covid-19 in just 15 days. The second wave also had affected children in the district and over 700 children had tested positive during the first and second waves.
Now, children have been infected within a short period, and luckily hospitalization is less in number.Parents are negligent about getting their children tested even when they show symptoms. In the third wave, the pandemic has been spreading with high speed to the community, and children are easily infected because they are not maintaining social distance and not wearing masks.
Luckily, no child has been hospitalised after testing positive in the district and all are getting treatment while in home isolation as because the intensity of the pandemic is very less.
Admitting this, district surgeon Dr PR Havanur, who is also a Paediatrician, said, “This time schools are operating so children are exposed easily to the virus. so much so that more children have contracted the virus in the third wave than the previous two waves. But children have been recovering quickly because they have good immunity. Interestingly, they never think Covid-19 is very dangerous and they never bothered about the infection.” Dr HS Raghavendraswamy, the district health officer, noted that the intensity of the pandemic in the third wave is very low. All 354 children are recovering at home isolation and so there is no need to worry, he added.
“We are requesting school authorities and parents, not allow children who symptoms to enter the classroom and immediately send them for at RT-PCR test. It will help curb transmission of the virus,” he said.