Bhubaneswar, Sept. 9 -- If your child develops redness in eyes, mouth or feet coupled with bouts of loose motion, vomiting and stomach-ache, then it warrants a visit to the physician as it can as well be the Multi-System Inflammatory (MI) Syndrome, warned the Director of Odisha Family Welfare Department, Bijay Panigrahi on Thursday.

As the daily COVID positive count remains low in the State since the past few days, the MI syndrome which generally affects children between 4-6 weeks after the patient is cured from COVID19, has now posed a serious threat.

The syndrome was first noticed during the first wave of COVID19. However, the second wave made things worse and more and more children were affected by the syndrome, forcing health offici...