Mary Wilson
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Tue 6 Jul 2021 08.59 EDT
Rebecca Ratcliffe
The number of Covid infections and deaths among children in Indonesia has risen sharply over the past month, a senior paediatrician has said, as the country faces its most severe outbreak since the start of the pandemic.
... Dr Aman Pulungan, the head of Indonesia’s paediatric society, said there was a misconception children were not affected by Covid, yet cases were rising rapidly among minors. The number of weekly infections recorded among under-18s had doubled in less than one month, he said. Between 28 June and 4 July, 11,872 cases were found among children – an increase from 7,329 c the previous week, and 5,255 the week before.
... As of 5 July, 556 children were confirmed to have died after testing positive, an increase from 340 deaths at the end of May. Many more Covid cases and related fatalities were likely to have been unrecorded, Aman added.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...as-indonesia-suffers-its-worst-covid-outbreak
Rebecca Ratcliffe
The number of Covid infections and deaths among children in Indonesia has risen sharply over the past month, a senior paediatrician has said, as the country faces its most severe outbreak since the start of the pandemic.
... Dr Aman Pulungan, the head of Indonesia’s paediatric society, said there was a misconception children were not affected by Covid, yet cases were rising rapidly among minors. The number of weekly infections recorded among under-18s had doubled in less than one month, he said. Between 28 June and 4 July, 11,872 cases were found among children – an increase from 7,329 c the previous week, and 5,255 the week before.
... As of 5 July, 556 children were confirmed to have died after testing positive, an increase from 340 deaths at the end of May. Many more Covid cases and related fatalities were likely to have been unrecorded, Aman added.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...as-indonesia-suffers-its-worst-covid-outbreak