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about ‘Magnitude of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Outcome in Paediatric Surgical Inpatients during the First Wave of Pandemic at a Tertiary Care Children’s Hospital in India’. Their study was con-ducted to investigate the magnitude and effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on paediatric surgical inpatients in a tertiary care children’s hospital during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (March 2020 to September 2020). While 9 (2.88%) of the 312 patients they operated on in their study were SARS-CoV-2 positive, 11 (6.58%) of the 167 patients they did not operate on were SARS-CoV-2 positive. Only one death occurred due to perforation peritonitis with sepsis. While the overall prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 was 4.17% in paediatric surgical patients, similar results were obtained in SARS-CoV-2 positive patients to patients without SARS-CoV-2. They stated that morbidity or mortality did not increase in paediatric surgery patients in this first pandemic attack of SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19),