New Delhi, April 16 -- In what should worry parents the most, an increasing number of children are now being infected with Covid-19 along with serious symptoms in the ongoing second wave in India.

Doctors have urged parents not to take their kids out and expose them to the virus. Earlier, the novel coronavirus showed very mild or no effect in children.

However, in its second run, the virus is turning out to be much severe for both children as well as adults under 45.

"Lots of new cases of Covid-19 infections in children are coming in this second wave and the numbers are much, much higher than they were earlier," Dr Krishan Chugh, Director and head of the department of paediatrics at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, told IAN...