9 children dead, over 1000 suffer from acute respiratory infection in West Bengal
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Though the doctors claimed that the fever and cough leading to breathing problems are a result of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and has nothing to do with COVID, the huge number of affected children has become a cause of worry for the district health administration.
Kolkata: After the puja season when COVID is slowly surging back to the state, more than 1,200 children were admitted to the Burdwan Medical College in West Bengal in the last one month with acute respiratory problems, and nine of them have died, officials said on Sunday (October 24).
Though the doctors claimed that the fever and cough leading to breathing problems are a result of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and has nothing to do with COVID, the huge number of affected children has become a cause of worry for the district health administration.
"In the last one month, more than 1200 children have been admitted with high fever, cough, cold, and acute respiratory problems and we couldn`t save nine of them. They were below six months old and were physically weak. We have tested all the children and all of them have been detected COVID negative," the Medical College`s Head of the Paediatric Department, Kaustav Nayek said.
