Sponsorship of Rs 2,000 per child per month is available for non-institutional care of children and maintenance grant of Rs 2,160 for children in child care institutions. Of 6,098 applications received under the ‘PM CARES for Children’ scheme, 3,481 children orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic have been approved as eligible for its benefits, the government … Read more
Children may play an important role in COVID-19 transmission. (Reuters file image) Children can shed the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, even if they are asymptomatic, or for long after their symptoms have cleared, according to a new study which sheds more light on the significance of the pediatric population in the pandemic’s spread. The … Read more
The findings, which are published on Friday in the ‘British Medical Journal’, also identify new symptoms of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) a rare condition thought to be linked to COVID-19. Children and teenagers are less likely than adults to develop severe COVID-19 or die from the disease, according to a new UK study, … Read more