A group of doctors has written to the state health department with an appeal to set up more paediatric Covid beds as more children are testing positive for the disease in the second wave of infection compared with the first.
The letter from Protect the Warriors, an association of doctors, has also urged the department to publish a paediatric Covid management protocol, which will include an advisory on managing a child at home when adults in the family test positive.
The letter has also stressed the need to have paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) beds at both government and private hospitals.