Chandigarh: Covid’s third wave, which has a higher transmission rate, has gripped children too.
Since December, PGI has seen 70 children’s acceptance, which mainly comes with a fundamental illness and picks up Covid in the hospital.
During the last wave, around 185 children were received in two months.
“The number of high-infected children because community transmission is also high,” said a faculty member.
He said, “In PGI, we mainly see children with comorbidity and related covid.
Their acceptance needs are mostly for their comorbidity.
Our hospital admission data reflects referral data.” New comprehensive guidelines revised for Covid-19 management on the management-19 Children and adolescents’ by the Director General of Health Services have not recommended the use of antiviruses and antibiotics for children.
“Antibiotics in children are prescribed for the underlying disease.
Most children are referred to primary disease and picked up as a positive covid on universal screening in an emergency,” said a doctor in PGI.
In accordance with the latest global research on Antitimrobial Resistance (AMR) reports published in Lancet, AMR poses a threat to people of all ages, young people are found especially for high risk, with one of the five deaths caused by this resistance in children Children under the age of five.
Revised guidelines do not recommend monoclonal antivirus or antibodies for children less than 18 years regardless of the severity of infection.
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