Milton.Wrencemysuru: The school has been opened in the midst of a surge in Covid cases among children and on the first day, around 60% of students appear for classes in government schools even when some schools prefer to continue with online classes.
In the past week, the number of children under the age of 18 years is infected, has risen.
Pediatric clinics are also flooded with children with symptoms of fever, coughing and cold.
Doctors claim seasonal flu and children recover from a disease in two-three days.
Even though there is no hospitalization of children, but the worries are children are lots that are not vaccinated.
At that time this district had 1,876 active cases of children with most of them in house isolation.
About 42 was in the Covid treatment center and around 10 were hospitalized.
Only two deaths were reported, including the death of a 3-month-old baby girl due to acute kidney injury coupled with covid pneumonia on January 21.
The number of infections increased, with 172 cases reported on Sunday.
Overall, Mysuru has reported 16,000 Covid pediatric cases.
The city of Mysuru has the highest number of Covid cases followed by Mysuru Taluk in this district.
“With the number of pediatric cases, the situation does not look worrying, but all preventive measures have been made.
The school has been informed to enforce the appropriate behavior of Covid and we monitor the situation carefully,” said District Health Officer Dr KH Prasad.paediatriatri said the case of children who were have more flu symptoms this time.
If a fever, cold or cough continue beyond three days, parents are advised to undergo children for testing.Karnataka Coordinator School Association Coordinator Santhos Kumar said about 60% of students appeared for class on the day after the next match surge in the case.
“We have asked management to limit students to share food and avoid coming to school if anyone has flu symptoms.
About 80% of private management schools are reopened on Monday with more than 60% of students who attend offline classes,” he added.
DDPI Ramachandra Raje Urs said all Covid prevention measures were taken at school.