Thirteen years old in Europe, U.S.A. Six weeks of baby death because of Coronavirus
With a six-week-old baby dying of a new type of Covid-19 infection in the U.S., concerns are growing as a series of child deaths have already been confirmed in Europe.
King's College Hospital in London said in a statement the previous day that a 13-year-old boy who was being treated at a hospital with a new Covid-19 died. The man, named Ismail Mohammed Abdulwahab, was confirmed to have a new Covid-19's diagnosis on April 27, a day after he was admitted to King's College Hospital, and reportedly died three days later.
In particular, he added to the shock as he was known to be a healthy child with no underlying disease. "The child was being treated in isolation at the time of his death, so the parents were unable to stand by him even at the last minute," Euronews said.
Belgium's health authorities earlier said a 12-year-old girl died of a new Covid-19 on April 30. The girl reportedly suffered from a high fever for about three days and died after undergoing treatment after being tested positive for Covid-19.
It was not known in detail whether the girl had a basal disease or not. Belgian quarantine spokesman Emmanuel Andre expressed condolences, calling it "a very rare case but very frustrating one." Until this day, the youngest of Belgium's deaths was a 30-year-old female nurse. The death of a 12-year-old girl, however, makes her the youngest known case of Covid-19 deaths in Europe.
A 16-year-old girl who was confirmed to be a new Covid-19 died in France on Saturday. A 14-year-old boy who suffered from autoimmune disease in Portugal died on April 30 after a confirmed ruling. In particular, a child who was only six weeks old died of Covid-19 in the U.S. on Wednesday.
Until now, new Covid-19 has been recognized as a deadly infectious disease in older people, mostly with basal diseases. However, there have been a number of recent cases in which teenage children, including newborn babies, have died of a new type of Covid-19.
Andrew Pollard, a professor of pediatric infection immunology at Oxford University in the U.K., pointed out that although he thought children were not infected in the early stages of the new Covid-19 outbreak, it is now clear that the size of children's infection is no different from that of adults.