1,200 kids admitted to Bengal hospital with acute respiratory problems in a month

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More than 1,200 children were admitted to the Burdwan Medical College in West Bengal with acute respiratory problems in the past one month, and nine of them have died, officials said on Sunday.

Though the doctors claimed that the fever and cough leading to breathing problems are a result of Respiratory Syncytial Virus and has nothing to do with Covid-19, the huge number of affected children has become a cause of worry for the district health administration.

"In the past one month, over 1200 children have been admitted with high fever, cough, cold, and acute respiratory problems. They were below six months old and were physically weak. We tested them all and they were detected Covid-19 negative," said Kaustav Nayek, the Medical College's head of the Paediatric Department.

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