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Amid 3rd covid wave threat, 9900 children test positive in one month in Maharashtra district
Maharashtra last month, but the district administration claimed that around 95 per cent of them were asymptomatic and the situation was not alarming.In May this year, atotal of 86,182 COVID-19 cases were reported in Ahmednagar, district Collector Rajendra Bhosale told PTI."Out of them, 9,928 were minors (aged below 18), which comes to about 11.5 per cent of the total cases reported last month," Bhosale said.He said out of the 9,928 minors who contracted the viral infection, 6,700 were in the age group of 11 to 18, 3,100 were in 1 to 10 years age bracket, while some were also below the age of 1 year."Since around 95 per cent of them were asymptomatic, there is nothing to worry.