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New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday that two children and a teenager had died of complications from covid-19, which included heart problems and inflammation of the blood vessels.
This Saturday, Andrew Cuomo announced two deaths, that of a seven-year-old boy and a teenager, after reporting on Friday the death of a five-year-old boy in a New York hospital.
There is no evidence that covid-19 triggered Kawasaki syndrome, a rare inflammatory disease, that has already been diagnosed in 73 children in New York, according to the US AP news agency.
Cuomo said the children tested positive for covid-19, but did not show symptoms normally associated with the disease when they were hospitalized.
“This is the last thing we need, with all that is happening, with all the anxiety, is that parents need to worry about whether their children are infected or not,” Cuomo said at the daily news conference.
New York State is helping to develop a criteria for identifying the national syndrome at the request of the Center for Disease Control, the governor added.
In the United States of America, several children have been hospitalized with this disease, which has also been reported in Europe., but the doctors continue believe most children with covid-19 will develop only mild symptoms.
At least three thousand children are diagnosed annually with Kawasaki disease, which is more common in children under the age of six..
Symptoms include prolonged fever, severe abdominal pain, and breathing difficulties.
Globally, according to a report by the AFP news agency, the covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 274,000 deaths and infected more than 3.9 million people in 195 countries and territories.
More than 1.2 million patients were considered cured.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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