{"id":15897,"date":"2021-08-23T15:59:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T10:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=15897"},"modified":"2021-08-23T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T10:29:39","slug":"coronavirus-third-wave-apprehensions-concerning-children-preparedness-suggested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/coronavirus-third-wave-apprehensions-concerning-children-preparedness-suggested\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Third wave apprehensions concerning children &#038; preparedness suggested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) has indicated that there is \u201cinsufficient evidence to suggest a third Covid wave will affect children more than adults\u201d, adding that there is still \u201ccause for worry if not panic\u201d as long as they remain unvaccinated and the existing medical facilities are inadequate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/covid-third-wave-paediatric-facilities-nowhere-close-report-warns-on-3rd-wave-children-2516453#pfrom=home-ndtv_topstories\" data-schema-attribute=\"\">according to a report by the NDTV<\/a>. The NIDM operates under the Union Home Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The report quotes NIDM stating \u2013 in its report on recommendations for preparations on the third wave \u2013 that \u201cPaediatric facilities &#8211; doctors and equipment, like ventilators and ambulances, are nowhere close to what may be required in case a large number of children become infected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NIDM is also said to have raised the issue of co-morbidities among children and said vaccination must be an \u201cimmediate priority\u201d. Between 60-70 per cent COVID-positive children have co-morbidities, according to the health ministry data quoted in the report. Vaccination for those between 12 to 17 may begin shortly, according to indications so far.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals and other health facilities in some parts of the country \u2013 like in Bengal \u2013 have started upgrading and preparing their paediatric facilities in view of a possible third wave affecting children. Experts are of the opinion that the third wave may be fought to a large extent by increasing vaccination. Till now, India has administered over 58 crore vaccine doses so far. However, only 13.1 crore of these are second doses and this has to increase to a great extent to ensure maximum protection against the virus, say experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) has indicated that there is \u201cinsufficient evidence to suggest a third Covid wave will affect children more than adults\u201d, adding that there is still \u201ccause for worry if not panic\u201d as long as they remain unvaccinated and the existing medical facilities are inadequate, according to a report by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":9837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[246,346,386,525,371,583],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-coronavirus-in-india","9":"tag-coronavirus-in-kolkata","10":"tag-covid-19-and-schools","11":"tag-covid-19-vaccine","12":"tag-lockdown-in-india","13":"tag-top-story"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15899,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions\/15899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15897"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=15897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}