Health Dept. to monitor paediatric COVID cases
The Hindu
16 children, who tested positive, are under treatment in U.T.: Director of Health
The Health Department has decided to closely monitor the incidence of paediatric COVID-19 cases. At least 16 child patients are under treatment for COVID-19 in the Union Territory. S. Mohan Kumar, Director of Health, said. While 16 children had tested positive and were admitted to the paediatric COVID-19 ward at the IGMCRI, the test results were awaited in the case of four newborns of mothers with COVID-19. The result of one newborn has come negative. While 12 children were in the 1 to 5 years age range, four were under five years of age, Dr. Mohan Kumar said.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.