The Centre late on Wednesday night released a list of guidelines to manage Covid-19 among children as anxiety over the third wave continues. The Directorate General of Health Services advised against use of anti-viral drug Remdesivir in children.
The new rules have come even as top doctors in India, involved with the national coronavirus task force, have said that there is no data to suggest any such threat to children. AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria said that 60-70 percent of the children, who got infected and were hospitalised during the second wave, had either co-morbidities or low immunity, and healthy children recovered with mild illness without need for being admitted.
Dr VK Paul said that it is uncertain that a wave would affect children specifically. “Till now, children have displayed similar seroprevalence as adults, which means, they are as much affected as adults,” he added.