NOIDA: A third of the new Covid cases reported in Noida on Thursday were from the below 18 years category. While the numbers remained low - of the 44 fresh cases added in the past 24 hours, 15 were minors - schools and health department officials underlined the need to ramp up vaccination of all eligible children in the 12-14 age group so that offline classes that have commenced after a gap of two years are not disrupted.
Forty-five children have tested positive for the viral infection in the city over the last five days, of them, prompting parents' associations to criticise the hastiness in recalling students back to campus instead of a gradual return that is calibrated to vaccine coverage.
