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400 students have tested COVID-19 positive since schools reopened: TN govt

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400 students have tested COVID-19 positive since schools reopened: TN govt

Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan said that about 400 students have tested positive for Covid-19 infection in the state ever since the schools were reopened for classes IX to XII on September 1.

According to a report in the New Indian Express, the health secretary had said that the infection has been contained effectively in the state so far but still the health department has been monitoring the situation closely.

The report said that Radhakrishnan was speaking at a webinar organized on the topic ‘Back to school: challenges and opportunities’ organized by UNICEF in association with Press Institute of India on Thursday.

Quoting the health secretary, the report said that even though students have started testing positive after the schools were reopened, the situation was not alarming and most of the cases were isolated and sporadic.

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He said that schools in Thanjavur were identified as Covid clusters earlier this year but the situation was not the same now. He further said that the decision to reopen the schools was taken based on the views of the expert committee that included chief scientists of World Health Organization (WHO) Sowmya Swaminathan and the committee observed that it was important to reopen the schools for the mental health of the students, according to the report.

Meanwhile, the report said that as many as 16 girl students belonging to a private school in Coimbatore district tested positive for the infection on Thursday and the school management had announced that they would reopen their premises on October 1 after closing it for fumigation.

News Source: The Indian Express

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Covid infection linked to more type 1 diabetes in kids and teens: Study

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Two studies that did not definitively resolve the question of whether the coronavirus can cause the chronic disease of diabetes found that Covid-19 in children and adolescents appeared to increase the chance of acquiring diabetes. Over two years after the pandemic’s commencement, researchers from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health looked at new type 1 diabetes diagnoses using national health registries. They discovered that type 1 diabetes was roughly 60% more likely to develop in children who had tested positive for the coronavirus.

The risk within 30 days of a Covid infection confirmed by a PCR test was examined by the researchers. Young adults were also included in a Scottish study that was presented at the European Link for the Study of Diabetes meeting. This study indicated an increased risk one month following the viral sickness, but the researchers said they discovered no association after that point.

The authors of both studies emphasised that their findings do not necessarily imply a causal link between diabetes and the coronavirus. Other potential causes were emphasised, such as delays in seeking medical attention during the epidemic, the introduction of other diseases, and alterations in way of life brought on by lockdowns.

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, an associate professor at the Nuffield department of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford, stated: “There are a lot of plausible reasons that Covid-19 might lead to development of type 1 diabetes, but this remains in no way proved.”
According to a paper earlier this week in the medical journal The Lancet, the number of people with type 1 diabetes, in which the pancreas fails to generate the hormone insulin, may increase from 8.4 million to 17.4 million by the year 2040.

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The illness, which has no known treatment and is most frequently diagnosed in children, is thought to be caused by a combination of genetics and exposure to particular pathogens, including SARS-Cov-2 as well as a larger family of viruses known as enteroviruses. Type 2 diabetes, which is more prevalent, typically appears later in life as sedentary habits and weight increase mess with the body’s ability to manage sugar.

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