Mysuru: Citing a sero survey conducted as part of the Covaxin pediatric vaccine trial in MySuru District and social disorders, emotions, and nutrition faced by children, experts encourage the commencement of classes on campus at school.
The government ordered the school to close in March last year as a measure of prevention of pandemic and regular classes for lower values ​​has not been done since then.
Dr.
Pradeep N, Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Mysuru Medical College and Research Institute, said Sero-Surveillance research has shown that more than 50% of children have been infected with a virus.
“As part of our Covaxin pediatric trial, we conducted an IgG antibody test as a screening size of more than 200 children.
From them, only 88 who qualified to take the vaccine as the rest was tested positive for antibodies.
Strangely, there are no positive children which shows symptoms of infection, “said Dr.
Pradeep to TI.
He said the level of participants was higher among younger age groups.
About 60% in children between zero and six years, 50% in children between six and 12 years and 40% in children aged between 12 and 18 years.
He said data showed most children would be asymptomatic or would have mild symptoms even if they signed infection.
Very advocating for reopening the school, he said it not only has an increase in child labor, child marriages and malnutrition, but children also face psychological problems such as depression, temperature, and other behavioral disorders that make them anxiety such as anxiety, stress disorders and atmosphere Heart in their adulthood.
“Also, nutritional disorders such as obesity, overweight and malnutrition increases, and they are a systemic disease predictor such as diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease in adulthood,” he said.
“However, we need to take precautions to high-risk children like them with congenital heart disease, chronic asthma, chronic kidney failure, and other chronic diseases that look less than 1% of the child’s population.” Ashvini Ranjan, Trustee, Pratham Mysore, who works in the basic education sector, said the school must be back in small geography at first.
“Based on how things, schools can be reopened elsewhere.
This will provide a real picture.
The government must make decisions that bring parents and society in large,” he said.