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A regional health organization announced today that symptoms of a life-threatening syndrome associated with "Covid 19" have infected 230 children in Europe and have claimed the lives of two of them so far this year, while the World Health Organization has urged doctors around the world to be ready to face them.
Reuters quoted a report by the Swedish-based European Center for Disease Control and Prevention that two children died of the syndrome, one in Britain and the other in France.
The condition, which is called syndrome of multi-systemic inflammation in children, shares symptoms with so-called "toxic shock" and "Kawasaki" disease, including fever, rash, swollen glands, and heart problems in severe cases.
For its part, the World Health Organization called doctors around the world to be alert but warned that the syndrome's association with "Covid 19" remains unclear.
The organization said that the syndrome cases increased during the current pandemic, but made it clear that it also appeared on children who did not have "Covid 19".
Most of the deaths due to coronavirus infection are elderly and chronically ill, but reports of the syndrome affecting children raised fears that the virus might pose a greater risk to young adults than initially thought.
