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These are among several young people without comorbidities who are succumbing to Covid-19 in the second wave in Andhra Pradesh.
Severe infection and hospitalisation among the younger populace is a recent trend being observed across the state.
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A 29-year-old youth working with the endowments department succumbed to Covid-19 in Kakinada on Sunday.
A 15-month-old child passed away after battling Covid-19 for about a week in Visakhapatnam a few days ago.
A 27-year-old MBA graduate, who was on a job hunt, died of a severe infection of the disease in Srikakulam.
A 23-year-old youth lost his life to the pandemic while waiting for hospital admission in Visakhapatnam about a week ago.
In another case, a 27-year-old man died of the disease in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.
These are among several young people without comorbidities who are succumbing to Covid-19 in the second wave in Andhra Pradesh.
Severe infection and hospitalisation among the younger populace is a recent trend being observed across the state.
Even though the conventional wisdom says that the vulnerability to severe illness from the pandemic in the younger cohort is somewhat less compared to other age groups, the pandemic has cut short the lives of many in the 20–40 age-group in both first and second waves of the pandemic.
The number of young people requiring intensive care has risen sharply in the last two months.
In the first wave, the disease predominantly affected the middle-aged and the elderly.