New Delhi: Children can handle virus infections far better than adults despite similar antibody exposure to children as adults, Director of the Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR) General Balram Bhargava said suggesting elementary school.
However, decisions must be considered only after all staff – teaching and non-teaching – vaccinated and depending on the public health situation of certain districts, said Bhargava.
“Children can handle viral infections better than adults.
In addition, it has been seen that small children have lower Ace2 receptors in their lung cells.
However, the antibody exposure we see in this sero survey among children Children are very similar to adults.
“” Some countries, especially Scandinavian countries, totally do not turn off elementary school.
So India began to consider, wise to open the first elementary school and then secondary, and that also when all staff including teachers , Drivers etc.
are fully vaccinated, “said Bhargava.
According to the fourth National Sero Survey findings, more than half of children 6-17 years showed the presence of antibodies.
Positive Sero was 57.2% in the age group 6-9 years, while 61.6% in the age group 10-17 years showed the presence of antibodies.
On the other hand, the overall prevalence of 67.6% with 66.7% showed the existence of antibodies in the age group of 18-44 years and more than 75% in higher age brackets.
Highlighting that the situation can be different from the country to the country, officials say the decision to start schools needs to be taken at the district level depending on their participants, vaccination status and public health situation.