Huge rise in deaths of children with Covid-19

Huge rise in deaths of children with Covid-19

Forty-one have died this year compared to only six last year, while infant deaths rose from three to 15 .

There has been a staggering increase in the number of Covid-19-related deaths among infants and young children this year. (Bernama pic)
PETALING JAYA:
There has been a frightening rise in the number of children dying of Covid-19 this year, with 41 fatalities under the age of 17 compared to only six in 2020.

What is even more shocking is that the health ministry has reported 15 deaths this year among children aged up to four years. There were only three such deaths all of last year and another three this year until the end of May.

The statistics indicate that 12 children aged up to four years have died in the last three months.

There have also been 16 deaths among teenagers aged between 13 and 17. Meanwhile, nine deaths this year involved children aged nine to 12, and one other was five or six years old.

The deaths were reported until Aug 30.

There were 310,074 cases involving children for 2021, a 25-fold increase compared to the 12,620 in 2020. Fatality rate was at 0.01%.

The highest number of cases among children this year involved those aged between seven and 12 with 106,823. This was followed by children aged 13-17 (89,087 cases), up to four years (81,168), and five and six years (32,996).

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