In flu season, virus symptoms spark Covid 3.0 fear among kids

As India recovers slowly from a debilitating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a sudden rise in cases of fever – both influenza and viral, as well as post-monsoon ailments like malaria and dengue.

This year, around 53,343 fever cases were reported in June, while in 2019, there were 625,651 cases for the full year. The pandemic-hit 2020 was an aberration, when cases of fever (269,840 cases) were significantly lower since people stayed indoors.

But post-monsoon, some clinicians have noticed a surge in paediatric Covid cases.

Dr Suresh Kumar Panuganti, lead consultant-paediatric critical care and paediatrics, Yashoda