Less than two weeks after a majority of the schools in the city reopened, cases among children under 19, many of whom are yet to be eligible for vaccines, have gone up by 11 per cent. In another worrying trend, ICU admissions in Mumbai have risen by about 26 per cent, though doctors insisted it wasn’t much compared to the overall number of Covid cases.

As per BMC data, over the past 12 days, of the 22,735 cases registered in the city, as many as 2,478 are from the age group of 0 to 19 years, which is the school and college-going group.