Experts have claimed that the children rarely have severe symptoms when infected by the novel coronavirus, without giving any reasons.
However, that doesn’t mean that children are not carriers for the new coronavirus, which jumped from animals to humans in China’s Wuhan.
An epidemiologist, Justin Lessler while taking to an international news agency said, “We know children get infected with virus, but they don’t appear to be sick or die.”
He further said that they don’t know how much these asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic kids transmit, adding that this was the key to understanding their role in epidemic.
According to a study in mid-February, from 44,000 confirmed cases in and around the city of Wuhan, the 10-to-19 age children made up one percent of infections and a single death. Patients under 10 comprised less than one percent, with no death reported.
Another epidemiologist informed that the experts were still figuring out around the deficits of cases among those under 20.
There are several theories surfacing which states that children especially young ones are less prone to serious symptoms. However, no confirmed reports have been reported in this regard.
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