Nearly 500 Children Tested Positive For COVID-19 This Month In Bengaluru

The reopening of schools for some grades makes the situation different from last year when cases increased in the first wave. At that time, a lockdown was in place and schools were closed.

Karnataka's capital, Bengaluru, is seeing a huge surge in the COVID-19 numbers and children are not being spared in this spike. As per the data released on Tuesday evening, Of the nearly 2,000 positive cases, 50 were children under the age of ten years. Around 500 children have tested positive for the highly contagious virus so far this month. The city corporation, however, says there is no real surge in the cases among the very young. "Since March 1, we have tested nearly 32,000 school students. Out of this, only 121 tested positive - just .38 per cent (of total cases). So, we can clearly say that children are not infected in large numbers in Bengaluru," Manjunath Prasad, the outgoing Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner, told NDTV. He said the group which is getting affected in the city is between the age of "20 to 40 years".