Children Get Covid, Must Ensure They Don't Become Part Of Chain: Centre

NITI Aayog member Dr VK Paul said that the second Covid wave had affected rural India more.

Children do get COVID-19, contradictory to popular assumptions, although they usually show only mild symptoms, NITI Aayog member - health Dr VK Paul said today. The attempt on the part of the government now is to ensure that minors do not become part of the chain through which the disease spreads, he said. The second wave of the pandemic, in which number of children affected have seen a rise, has alerted the country's health experts to stress on ways to handle children, with pre-existing co-morbidities, who have been infected with the deadly virus, ANI had reported earlier. "The matter of children is more important...They do get Covid. But the symptoms are minimal. They are largely asymptomatic," Dr Paul told reporters today. "However, the task is to make sure that they do not become part of the chain through which the disease spreads among people," he said.