5000 kids in Meghalaya test positive for Covid

June 18, 2021 17:14

Just in: Over 5,000 children in the age group of 0-14 have tested positive for COVID-19 in Meghalaya since last year, of them 17 succumbed to disease: Health Minister A L Hek said.

This news comes even as Luv Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, Health Ministry, said today that it may not be true that children will be disproportionately affected in the third wave as the serosurvey shows seropositivity was almost equal in all age groups. "But the government is not leaving any stone unturned in terms of preparations," he said.

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