COVID positive in this phase, but that's not because the coronavirus is more lethal for children. It is because overall infections are much higher compared to the earlier waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dr Faheem while speaking to news agency ANI said,"There is a belief with Omicron variant of Covid-19 that it tends to infect the upper respiratory tract more as compared to our lungs and lower respiratory tract.
Children have anatomically their upper respiratory tract in a developing phase. So that's probably one of the reasons that we're seeing more hospitalizations.
But by and large, children are still doing much better than adults and people who are elderly and immunocompromised." In a detailed interaction with ANI, the doctor also said that people who got infected with Delta are now coming back with Omicron.