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]]>If required the government will carry out inoculation programmes for children similar to the pulse polio drive, she said.
Ms Banerjee said 12 lakh people in Bengal got their COVID jabs on Tuesday and in the urban areas 75 per cent of the population have been inoculated.
Everyone will be vaccinated. Do not rush to the vaccination centres after hearing rumours and unnecessarily create panic. Do not be worried,” she said.
“Not a single dose (of vaccine) is wasted in Bengal. Our requirement is 14 crore… We have the responsibility to administer the vaccines, but the Centre is supplying them,” she said while laying the foundation stone of Dhunseri Poly Films plant in Panagarh.
Keeping the third wave in mind, we are now thinking whether children will be required to be vaccinated or not. If required, the government will initiate inoculation programme similar to the pulse polio drive,” she added.
On Tuesday 12,10,095 people got the vaccine in different districts of Bengal taking the total number of people getting the dose to over four crore.
About 25 persons, mostly women, were injured in jostling outside a vaccination centre in Dhupguri in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district on Tuesday.
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]]>The findings of the study were published in the journal ”Archives of Disease in Childhood”.
Although the study numbers are small, the data are representative of those teens most likely to benefit from the vaccination, and should offer reassurance to parents and clinicians, said the authors.
Healthy children with COVID-19 infection generally have a mild illness, but some coexisting conditions, particularly neurological conditions, are associated with severe disease.
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]]>After a week since the media briefing, it appears that the ‘normalcy’ facade is crumbling. A reporter was allegedly pummeling in a popular Kabul junction today, in a disturbing reminder of the country’s terrible past. The Tolo News reporter resorted to Twitter to recount his terrifying encounter with Taliban fighters.
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]]>The post India among four South Asian countries where children are most at risk of the impacts of climate change appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>”The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index” (CCRI) is UNICEF’s first focussed on children. It ranks countries based on children’s exposure to climate and environmental shocks such as cyclones and heatwaves, as well as their vulnerability to those shocks based on their access to essential services.
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and India are among four South Asian countries where children are at extremely high risk of the impacts of the climate crisis, with a ranking of 14th, 15th, 25th and 26th respectively.
CCRI has placed India as one of the 33 extremely high-risk countries with flooding and air pollution being the repeated environmental shocks leading to socio-economic adverse consequences for women and children.
Approximately 1 billion children live in one of the 33 countries classified as “extremely high-risk”, including the four South Asian countries.
It is estimated that more than 600 million Indians will face ”acute water shortages” in the coming years, while at the same time flash flooding is to increase significantly in the majority of India’s urban areas once the global temperature increase rises above 2 degree Celsius. Twenty-one of the world’s 30 cities with the most polluted air in 2020 were in India.
Dr Yasmin Ali Haque, UNICEF India Representative, said, “Climate change is a child rights crisis. The Children’s Climate Change Index data has pointed to the serious deprivations faced by children due to the intensifying effect that climate and environmental shocks have on existing inadequate access to essential services such as water and sanitation, healthcare and education.”
“Understanding where and how children are uniquely vulnerable to this crisis is crucial to building our resilience and effectively addressing climate change. UNICEF hopes the findings of the report will help prioritize action to protect those most at risk and to ensure that children inherit a livable planet.”
India’s neighbours Nepal is ranked 51st and Sri Lanka 61st. Bhutan is ranked 111th, with children at relatively lower risk.
For the first time, we have clear evidence of the impact of climate change on millions of children in South Asia. Droughts, floods, air pollution and river erosion across the region have left millions of children homeless and hungry, and without any healthcare and water,” said George Laryea-Adjei, UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia.
“Together, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic have created an alarming crisis for South Asian children. The time to act is now – if we invest in water, healthcare and education, we can protect their futures from the impacts of a changing climate and degrading environment,” Laryea-Adjei said.
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]]>The post COVID-19 may behave like other common-cold coronaviruses in the next few years : Study appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The US-Norwegian team noted that because COVID-19 severity is generally lower among children, the overall burden from this disease is expected to decline as the SARS-CoV-2 virus becomes endemic in the global population.
“Following infection by SARS-CoV-2, there has been a clear signature of increasingly severe outcomes and fatality with age,” said Ottar Bjornstad from the University of Oslo in Norway.
Yet, our modelling results suggest that the risk of infection will likely shift to younger children as the adult community becomes immune either through vaccination or exposure to the virus,” he said.
The study, published in the journal Science Advances, noted that such shifts have been observed in other coronaviruses and influenza viruses as they have emerged and then become endemic.
“Historical records of respiratory diseases indicate that age-incidence patterns during virgin epidemics can be very different from endemic circulation,” Mr Bjornstad said.
“For example, ongoing genomic work suggests that the 1889-1890 pandemic, sometimes known as the Asiatic or Russian flu — which killed one million people, primarily adults over age 70 — may have been caused by the emergence of HCoV-OC43 virus, which is now an endemic, mild, repeat-infecting cold virus affecting mostly children ages 7-12 months old” he said.
Mr Bjornstad, however, cautioned that if immunity to reinfection by SARS-CoV-2 wanes among adults, disease burden could remain high in that group, although previous exposure to the virus would lessen the severity of disease.
“Empirical evidence from seasonal coronaviruses indicates that prior exposure may only confer short-term immunity to reinfection, allowing recurrent outbreaks, this prior exposure may prime the immune system to provide some protection against severe disease,” said Mr Bjornstad.
However, research on COVID-19 shows that vaccination provides stronger protection than exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, so we encourage everyone to get vaccinated as soon as possible,” he explained.
The team developed a “realistic age-structured (RAS) mathematical model” that integrates demography, degree of social mixing, and duration of infection-blocking and disease-reducing immunity to examine potential future scenarios for age-incidence and burden of mortality for COVID-19.
The researchers analysed disease burden over immediate, medium and long terms – 1, 10 and 20 years, respectively.
They also examined disease burden for 11 different countries — China, Japan, South Korea, Spain, UK, France, Germany, Italy, the US, Brazil and South Africa — that differed widely in their demographics.
The team used data from the United Nations for each of these countries to parameterise the model.
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]]>“One in three families (34 percent) has children still showing signs of psychological distress,” said the UN agency for children, UNICEF, citing a July survey of 1,200 families.
“In the case of adults, the figure reaches almost one in two (45.6 percent),” it added in a report published on the eve of the blast’s first anniversary.
The August 4, 2020 explosion killed more than 200 people, wounded at least 6,500 others and damaged swathes of the capital.
In the year since, Lebanon has also had to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic and a spiralling economic crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the planet’s worst since the mid-19th century.
“One year after the tragic events, children’s lives remain deeply affected,” said Yukie Mokuo, UNICEF’s representative in Lebanon.
“Those families have been struggling to recover from the aftermath of the explosions at the worst possible time – in the middle of a devastating economic crisis and a major pandemic.
A UNICEF survey in July found that almost all families that requested assistance in the wake of the Beirut port blast still need help, especially cash and food assistance, the agency said.
Many who lost employment because of the blast have yet to find work, UNICEF added, as Lebanon grapples with soaring poverty, rampant inflation and shortages of basic items from medicine to fuel.
Children’s lives are at risk as the escalating crisis is leaving most families unable to afford their basic needs,” Mokuo said.
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]]>It also noted that over 3 million of “Zero-dose children” in 2020 lived in India.
At nearly 4.4 million, South Asia recorded the highest number of children having failed to receive any routine vaccination in the past ten years, in 2020.
“More than 3 million of these “Zero-dose children” in 2020 lived in India,” the United Nations Children ‘s Emergency Fund, (UNICEF) said in a statement.
Globally, UNICEF said the data shows that just 10 countries account for 62 per cent of all under- or unvaccinated children globally.
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]]>The regulator’s subject expert committee (SEC) will examine data submitted by Cadila.
The vaccine has been tested on adults as well as children above 12 and if the regulatory committee is satisfied with the submitted data and documents, the vaccine will be approved for emergency use soon, officials said. An approval can hasten the opening of schools although vaccine supply will remain a concern.
If the SEC finds the phase 3 data submitted by the company satisfactory, the emergency use authorization for the vaccine can be granted this week itself.
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]]>The post BMC Declared Half Of The Children Have Antibodies In Mumbai appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The primary results of this study reveal that 51% of paediatrics had already been exposed to SARS-COV-2 in a health care environment.
The total seropositivity is 51.18%, 54.36% of the public sector and 47.03% of the private sector.
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]]>The post Measles Vaccine Might Be Effective For Children Against Covid, Studies Indicate appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>According to researchers at BJ Medical College in Pune, a measles vaccination might help limit the transmission of COVID-19 in youngsters by up to 87.5 percent. According to the study, children under the age of 18 who received the vaccination had fewer symptoms than those who did not.
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