Bengaluru: The number of children under the age of 10 Covid-19 contracts has increased sharply this month with more than 12,800 cases reported so far compared to 376 cases in December.
At 332, even lower in November.
So far, the case in January has been more than the total cases reported in six months between July and December 2021.
In the six-month period, the state has seen 7,246 children in the age group contracting infection, while the case in January was 77% More, with nine days left.
Analysis of data from Covid-19 State Warroom shows that between January 1 and 22, 12,876 children in this age group are tested positively.
That is the number to more than 585 children infected every day on average.
Until January 16, the state has reported an average of 350 cases in this category after adding 5,726 cases.
In the past week, 7,150 cases like that have been added.
The last time a monthly case in this category was more than 10,000 in May last year, where more than 20,000 cases were recorded.
Even April last year – when the second wave went berserk – see more than 20,000 cases.
At the end of May the country had around 77,000 cases in this age group which increased to 94,340 at the end of December.
While it violated the sign of one lakh on January 16, now approaching a 1.1 lakh sign.
Coronavirus immediately update, officials from the Ministry of Health said almost all of these infections were light.
“Increasing infections among children is on the expected path given that the overall increase in the case in the last month has been high.
However, the number of hospitalization and fatality continues to remain low, which is an indication that things are still under control,” said an official .
Minister of Primary and Secondary Education SM Nagesh, while advocating for school to reopen, has shown that with educational institutions closed, most children contract infections from parents and relatives at home.
Read Alsocovid-19: At 50.2k, Karnataka reported positive cases of 1 highest day on Sunday reported the highest one-day surge in Covid-19 – 50,210 cases – beyond the second wave peak of 50,112 and pushed the active case outside the 3.5 lakh sign For the first time since May 2021 between 10 and 19 years, jumped from around 2.6 lakh in the last week.
And, it was not surprising, those aged between 30 and 39 accounts for most cases (more than 7.9 lakh; it was 7.3 lakh last week) followed by more than 7.6 lakh in category 2029 years.
Those in the 40-49 group accounted for more than 5.9 lakh cases.
The rest are among those aged over 50 years, including 246 patients aged more than 100 years.