Give up casual attitude, get kids vaccinated, says ICMR chief

LUCKNOW: People have a casual attitude towards vaccination of children as the first and the second

Covid

wave did not see many severe infections and deaths in them, said

Dr Balram Bhargava

, director,

Council of the Indian Council of Medical Research

(

ICMR

) in Lucknow on Sunday.

He, however, urged parents and guardians to get children vaccinated on priority.

Dr Bhargava was speaking to TOI on the sidelines of the

Cardio-Respicon Update

2022 held in Lucknow on Sunday.

He was the chief guest of the medical conference.

“When we conducted sero surgery of antibodies in children during the third and fourth sero survey undertaken by ICMR, we discovered a high occurrence of infection and high number of antibodies in children too. This means that they were affected by the Covid infection during the two waves and they were perhaps asymptomatic,” said the ICMR chief.