BBMP data suggests footloose young adults in the 20-39 age group are turning into Covid-19 super-spreaders
BENGALURU:
Even as fears of a Covid third wave persist, the (relatively) good news for Bengaluru city is that not a single child in the age group of 0-19 has succumbed to the deadly coronavirus. However, the alarm bells have not stopped tolling as around 505 children in Bengaluru city have been infected by Covid-19 in the last 10 days.
According to the figures shared by BBMP’s health officials in the daily media bulletin on Wednesday, 13.44% of all infections during this period have been juveniles.
Going by the official figures, the number of infected male and female children is almost the same. Interestingly, children in the age group of 10-19 (a total of 311) are at the highest risk as 150 girls and 161 boys have come in contract with the virus in the last 10 days.
As per the figures, since August 1 around 96 female and 98 male children in the age group of 0-9 have been infected with the disease, though not a single fatality has been reported.
Watch on hospital admissions
To TheBengaluruLive’s query, an official said, “Children getting infected is not so much a concern, but (hospital) admissions need to be watched.”
In most cases, the infected children are asymptomatic and are being treated at home. “We will have to analyse how many paediatric admissions have taken place in the city,” said another official.
20-40 age group accounts for 47.53%
Even as the state government is doing all it can to curb the spread of the virus, irresponsible behaviour by citizens mostly in the 20-40 age group continues. This section has been coming out on the streets every day citing various reasons, and is slowly but unmistakably turning into super spreaders of the virus in the city.
As per the last 10 days’ data, around 893 fresh infections were reported in the 20-29 and 30-39 age group, of which 332 females and 561 males were in the 20-29 age group while 358 females and 535 males were in the 30-39 age group, taking the overall infection percentage of these groups to a worrying 47.53%.
