Milton.Wrencemysuru: It has been three weeks since the drive vaccination for teenagers between 15 and 18 years began in the district and the authorities had reached 86% of the target despite facing challenges in some of mysuru urban bags.
There are around 1.4 lakh teenagers in the district in the age bracket specified for vaccination.
The government has not yet decided to start the inoculation of drives for children between 12 and 15 years.
In the third wave, children and adolescents between 11 and 18 years catch the infection and the amount in the north every day passes.
In the past week, 84 individuals in the age bracket have changed positively on average with the highest number of cases recorded in the city of Mysuru followed by Periyapapanna and Hunsur Taluks.
Theority of positive cases under 18 years is those who are 11 years old.
and 17 years, according to the health department data.
The city of Mysuru has recorded almost 50% of the total positive cases in children.
A health official confirms that infection rises in children because many of them are primary or secondary contact or have flu symptoms for more than three days.
Virus tension mutations have not caused a lot of damage even in groups that are not vaccinated with a minimum number of inpatients, the official added.
The district health department has identified 1.4 recipients of the Lakh vaccine in the age group of 15-18 years and has already received an individual 1.2 lakh has received the first dose.
Beneficiaries tend to accept their second dose in February.
Except for some challenges in several bags and residential areas such as slum, inoculated drive has been successful Dr.
KH Prasad, 2,319 active cases of children under 18 years remain in the district and they, 97.6% of them are in house isolation and 1.8 % is at the Covid Care Center.
Only 0.6% of them were hospitalized, he added.