Rising number of children in fresh Covid-19 cases in Mizoram and Odisha
India TV NewsMizoram and Odisha have reported 1,302 and 582 fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday respectively. The rate of infection of children and adolescents in the age group of 0 to 18 years now is 14.26 per cent against the previous day’s 13.49 per cent in Odisha, said an official. The percentage of infected children aged below 10 years in the total active COVID-19 cases has risen since March this year, official sources said earlier, adding that a larger number of cases among children are being reported from Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, and Kerala, among others. COVID-19 in children should not be of much concern if they are asymptomatic and do not have a severe infection, experts said, amid some states, including Mizoram and Kerala, reporting a rise in cases among those aged below 10 years.