Over 850,000 children in US test positive for COVID-19

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Over 850,000 children in US test positive for COVID-19
A new report of the American Academy of Pediatrics and theChildren's Hospital Association says, in america a lot more than 850,000children have been diagnosed with corona virus because the beginning of thepandemic.

According to Xinhua report from Oct 22 to 2961,447 new childcases were reported, which reaches the best point because the pandemic began.

Report said Children accounted for 1 percent to 3.5 percentof overall reported hospitalisations, and 0 to 0.2 percent of most COVID-19 deaths.

"At this time, it appears that serious illness due toCOVID-19 is rare among children. However, there can be an urgent have to collectmore data on longer-term impacts on children, including ways the virus may harmthe long-term physical health of infected children, along with its emotionaland mental health effects," report said.

The highest on the globe may be the US, which are 9,379,590coronavirus cases with 232,553 deaths.

In December 2019 in China corona virus cases were firstreported. From then on in March 2020 World Health Organization declared it apandemic. No vaccine invented for the virus till now.

Confirmed number of corona virus cases stood 47,348,201globally with 1,212,844 deaths until Thursday morning, according to JohnsHopkins University (JHU) data.

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