At a special Facebook Live with Dettol and NDTV's Banega Swasth India team, Dr Manish Mannan, HOD, Paediatrics & Neonatology, Mother & Child Unit at Gurugram's Paras Hospitals, said that he disagrees with the assumption that the third wave of COVID-19 in India will affect children more. Dr Mannan said that there is no scientific or statistical evidence to imply that the third wave of COVID-19 will target children.