Panaji: If during the first wave of 6,508 pandemic children are tested positively, the second wave takes this number to 15,863.
A total of nine children who have comorbidity have surrendered to the virus so far, the data collected by the Directorate of Health Services shows.
The youngest victim during the first wave was an eight-month-old girl from Verem Savoi suffering from type-III glycogen storage disease, a disease that caused complex sugar buildup called glycogen in body cells.
There were five deaths during the first wave, the three of them were in the age bracket of one to three years.
During the second wave, four surrendered to the virus, all of which were more than 10 years old.
The first victim of Covid-19 among children was a 12-year-old boy boy in September 2020, who had leukemia.
During the first phase of pandemic, the death rate among children was 0.076% while during the second wave it was 0.0252%.
Data also revealed that the number of children under five who were affected in the first phase were lower than during the second phase.
The same applies to children in the age group 16 to 18 who see as many as 1,452 virus contracts during the first wave with double numbers during the second wave.
The number of children who need hospitalization during the two waves can be ignored.
On Friday, the country recorded 1,76,515 cases with 84 fresh infections reported during the day including.
With experts say that the estimated third wave will affect the larger part of the pediatric population, the government has trained the pediatrikan both from private hospitals and other staff.
The allowance for the bed has also been made in the super-special block of Goa Medical College which has been treated as a Covid Hospital.
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