Rajasthan: Corona Attack on Old Age People and Children

Once again corona patients have started increasing in Rajasthan, but this time the most infected elderly and children are coming.
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After three months, once again corona patients have started increasing in Rajasthan, but this time the most infected elderly and children are coming. Of the total patients, 70 percent of the patients are such, both the doses of the vaccine have been given. While out of the 129 infected patients found so far in November. 51 are those who are above 50 years of age and have also been vaccinated.

In fact, on Tuesday as well, after August 21, 23 patients appeared in a single day in the state. Earlier in the morning, the corona was confirmed in 12 children of a private school. According to Jaipur CMHO Dr. Narottam Sharma, 70 percent of these 51 infected patients are such that both doses of the corona vaccine have been administered.

Corona also attacked one dose vaccinated people

Jaipur CMHO told that apart from these 31 people of the age group of 30 to 50 years who have been corona infected, all of them have got at least one dose of the vaccine. Dr. Sharma said that for all the patients who have been found so far in Jaipur, their contact tracing is being done by taking samples of all the families. He told that soon we will start random sampling in schools also so that it can be known whether the children coming to the schools are not infected with corona.

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Image Credit: Amar Ujala

Here, the former superintendent of SMS Hospital, Dr Virendra Singh says that the person who has got the corona vaccine, it is not that those people will be saved from being infected with corona. By developing immunity in such individuals, they are more likely to avoid getting seriously ill or dying from the corona.

22 children infected so far

In November, 22 children have been infected from Corona in Jaipur November. In this, 16 children are from three reputed schools, out of which one school has to be closed for 7 days. At the same time, children have also come infected in two other schools, but those schools were not closed. A two and a half-year-old child living in the Chaumu area of ​​Jaipur lost his life due to Corona.

92 percent of people have taken one dose

Talking about Jaipur, 50 lakh 8281 people of age 18 and above are to be vaccinated here. Of these, more than 46 lakh 26,790 people (92 percent) have received at least one dose of the vaccine so far. At the same time, half of the 46 lakh 26,790 people have taken both doses of the vaccine.

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