An art of life

India study shows young children are super spreaders COVID-19

to help oxygen from the air we breathe enter the red cells in the blood.

is an art, a very scientific art “They then carry oxygen around the body to

that is more than just inhaling and exbe used by every cell in our body. The lungs also

haling air. help the body to get rid of CO² when we breathe

“Breathing has always been a part of our wellout. Extra oxygen in the blood stream stimulates ness arsenal, but somehow as one grows older, the excretory system, thereby clearing the body of breathing becomes less and less scientific. It harmful toxins. It also provides additional energy becomes shallow, and we begin to breathe in the and vitality. “Have you ever seen a baby breathe”? chest, rather than the stomach,” explained Yoga Sebina asks rhetorically. In and out, deep and

Instructor at Art of Living, Pauline Sebina. even, slow, easy and calm. If you look closely, you

“Many stress related ailments, whether physiwill see that it is not the chest that is rising and cal, mental or emotional, may be caused by imfalling, rather it is the stomach. To put it more proper breathing, and fortunately, they can be precisely, it is the diaphragm, the muscle between easily reversed by adopting natural breathing the chest and the abdominal cavity, which moves. mechanisms." Now, compare this with your own style of

Breathing properly increases the lungs capacity breathing. Chances are that you will find that it to get more oxygen. The lungs’ main function is differs. If you are like most people, your upper and youth are more likely to catch the virus from their age mates. But, even in other age groups people were more likely to contract the virus from those of similar

Diarrhoea

age. It was riskier among adults of 65 years or above, the research found out. The research demonstrated that Covid-19 is mainly being transmitted by “super spreaders”.

The researchers found that 70.7 per cent of infected individuals did not infect any of their contacts, while only eight per cent of infected individuals accounted for

60 per cent of the new infections. They found that the chances of a sick person transmitting BY RACHEL the virus RADITSEBE to a close contact ranged from 2.6 per cent in the community to nine per cent in the household. Almost “Super spreading a month events into it, a deadly

are the rule rather than the exception when one is look

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ing at the spread of Covid-19, both in India and likely

through the country, killing over

in all affected places. Our study presents the largest

hundreds more receiving treatment.

empirical demonstration of super spreading that we are aware of in any infectious disease,” The Laxminarayan outbreak was said. first detected

Meanwhile, of the 3914 COVID-19 last week of cases August registered when the Health in Botswana to date, 643 are noticed of children an increase up to 16 years of people especially old. Sir Ketumile Masire Teaching under Hospital five years Assistant complaining

Program Director, Dr Unami Molale said of the 643

diarrhoea in Gaborone and children, less than 10 of them were in need of oxygen

areas, Boteti, Selibe Phikwe and support. Only one child succumbed to the virus to date.

With schools open for learning, Diarrhoea the Ministry is of described Health as the has advised teachers to enforce loose health or watery protocols stool to which may ensure the disease does not least spread. three times in 24 hours.

alongside nausea, vomiting, and fever.

Diarrhoea can cause a lot of

Children are key to the spread of coronavirus even though they are believed to be less affected by Covid-19.A study of more than half a million people exposed to the virus in India established that the role of children in the transmission of the disease may have been underestimated.

The research published on the journal Science reported children are “potentially much more important to transmitting the virus, especially within households, than previous studies have identified.”

“Kids are very efficient transmitters in this setting (household), which is something that hasn’t been firmly established in previous studies,” said Ramanan Laxminarayan, the lead researcher. Scientists from Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Berkeley, traced infection pathways and mortality of 575,071 who had been exposed to Covid-19 from 84,965 confirmed cases in India. They found that reported cases of Covid-19 and deaths have been more concentrated in younger people in India than they expected, basing their observation on higher-income countries.

A different study published earlier in the year found that “children were as likely to be infected as adults despite presenting with symptoms less frequently.”

The study in India found children aged 0-14 years,