Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARSCoV-2) is proven to be the biggest public health crises of recent times 1 .As per the World Health Organization’s (WHO) update dated 21st June 2021, there have been 1,78,202,610 confirmed cases and 3,865,738 deaths worldwide 2 . The severity of corona virus disease specific acute respiratory infection vary in different age groups; the elderly are likely to have severe disease, children are relatively spared till-date 3 . Several differences in the pathogenesis of COVID-19 between children and adults have been proposed to explain these differences 4 .
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