After the puja season when Covid is slowly surging back to the state, more than 1,200 children were admitted to the Burdwan Medical College in West Bengal in the last one month with acute respiratory problems, and nine of them have died, .
According to the Medical College s Head of the Paediatric Department, all the children who are getting affected are below one year old and the children who are below six months are the most vulnerable to the disease.