21-40 year age group most Covid affected in Nashik city

NASHIK: About 46% of the people infected with Covid-19 in Nashik city are those in the 21-40 years age group.
Officials of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) said people in this age group are more vulnerable to the infection as they have to step out of their homes to go to work and spend long hours outside.
A sizeable section of this age group has acted irresponsibly by not adhering to safety protocols like wearing masks and maintaining physical distancing, thereby compounding the problem further.
Balram Bhargava, the director-general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), said not youth or old, but irresponsible people are spreading Covid-19.
According to NMC officials, 46% of the total 20,818 Covid-19 patients in the city are in the 21-40 years age group, while around 30% are in the 41-60 years bracket.
Around 11% of the patients are above the age of 61 years while 8.5% of the patients are from the age group of 11 to 20 years and 4.5% of the patients are below the age of 10 years.
The NMC officials said, “Youth are not taking the Covid-19 pandemic seriously. They are not maintaining the safety protocols like some are not wearing masks. This is the reason that more youth have been infected.”
“We want people to adhere to the safety protocols to contain the spread of Covid-19. People should wear a mask and maintain physical distancing to curb the pandemic,” the officials added.
The city had recorded the first patient on April 6 and by May 19, the city had only 48 patients Following the relaxation in the lockdown and the movement of people from the Covid affected cities like Mumbai and Malegaon, there was a spike in the number of Covid cases.