A very young child died in the United States of Covid-19, announced this Saturday March 28 the governor of the State of Illinois, without specifying his exact age. The disease is said to save children relatively, and very young victims are very rare. This child from the state of Illinois is therefore undoubtedly one of the youngest victims of the pandemic.
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“ Today I have terribly sad information to report. Among the deaths in the past 24 hours were a government employee and a very young child, "said Governor JB Pritzker at a press conference. " I know how difficult this news is to accept, especially in the case of a very young child, " he added, without specifying whether the child suffered from other pathologies.
The United States has become this week the country of the world having recorded the greatest number of cases of contaminations with the new coronavirus. It affected nearly 120,000 people and nearly 2,000 died.