With a substantial quantity of research predicting vulnerability of children in the occasion of the third wave of Coronavirus in future, scientists in Karnataka have began studying genome sequence of children who have been infected with Coronavirus. As element of the study, scientists are attempting to comprehend whether or not Covid-19 amongst children spread from the current variants of the virus or utilised a new variant to enter the body of children, the Indian Express reported. The duty of conducting the evaluation of genome sequencing has been entrusted with Prof V Ravi, a former professor of virology by the technical advisory committee of the state.
Prof Ravi was quoted as saying that the samples are getting collected for the evaluation and soon after they have been processed the details and information ought to be accessible in a fortnight. Though the Covid-19 scenario across the nation has substantially stabilised from the peak of the second wave, the move of the state government to study the genome sequences is getting seen as an work to prepare for the probable third wave of Coronavirus. Samples of infected children who have been severely infected with the virus along with these amongst international travellers, living in neighborhood infection clusters will be collected and studied as element of the evaluation.
Prof Ravi was quoted as saying that the virus is consistently mutating and also follows the principle of ‘survival of the fittest.’ As several as 10 % of the total quantity of Coronavirus infections in Karnataka in the initially and second wave of Coronavirus have been traced amongst children in the age group of -19. The fatality price amongst the exact same group of children has remained about .1 %. However, for the duration of the second wave the mortality amongst children elevated by about 4 % and 6 % in the -9 age group and 10-19 group respectively.