US schools reopen but Covid-19 continues to rise in children

Covid19 cases among US children are climbing at an alarming rate with nearly 94000 diagnosed with the virus last week and trends showing a ldquocontinuing substantial increaserdquoChildren now account for 15 per cent of Covid19 cases in the US according to a study released by The American Academy of Pediatrics AAP The same set of numbers also appear to show that severe illness hospitalisation and death are rare in children who get sick with the CoronavirusIn states where data was available less than 2 per cent of all child Covid19 cases required hospitalisation In states reporting only 000003 per cent of all child Covid19 cases resulted in death according to AAPAs of August 5 nearly 43 million children have tested positive for Covid19 since the onset of the pandemic Child cases have steadily increased since the beginning of July says the AAP report At this time nearly 60 per cent of US kids over 12 years have been fully vaccinated and nearly 70 per cent have got at least one shot Shots for kids under 12 years have not yet been authorisedPfizer received emergency use authorisation for vaccinating those 12 years of age and older the Moderna and Janssen vaccines are authorised for people 18 years of age and older Pfizer is expected to apply for emergency approval of the under 12 years shot by October this year Meanwhile schools have already started reopening for the Fall termIndia pushes up Dubairsquos air traffic volumeIndia continued to be Dubai International Airportrsquos top destination country by traffic volume in the first half of 2021 with passenger numbers exceeding 19 million 19 lakh despite travel restrictions due to Covid19 affecting its key source markets The worldrsquos busiest airport for international travel clocked 106 million passengers in the first six months of 2021 Dubai Airports said on Wednesday as it projected robust growth for Dubai International in the second half of the yearlsquoHerd immunity impossible with Delta variantrsquoThe highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid19 has rendered the prospect of herd immunity where the majority of a countryrsquos population becomes immune to a virus difficult the head of the UKrsquos Oxford Vaccine Group has warned Professor Andrew Pollard who led the team behind the Oxford Universityrsquos Covid19 vaccine told the AllParty Parliamentary Group APPG on Coronavirus on Tuesday that the fear of another even more transmissible variant remains a possibility and therefore there is nothing that can completely stop the deadly virus from spreadingBrsquodesh gets Chinese vax through COVAXPeople disembark from a ferry in Sreenagar to return to their work areas post the Bangladesh government relaxed the lockdown norms for all exportoriented factories PicAFPBangladesh has received another batch of Chinese Covid19 vaccine doses shipped through the COVAX facility This is the first consignment among three scheduled to arrive from China this week a health official said Bangladeshrsquos Health Ministry officials delivered the vaccines after an aircraft arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 715 pm on Tuesday Xinhua news agency reported560850No of new cases reported globally in the past 24 hours204286683Total no of cases worldwide4319262Total no of deaths worldwideSource WHOJohns Hopkins