A 12-year-old girl confirmed infected with COVID-19 has died in Belgium, health officials said Tuesday.
The young age of the fatality “is a very rare occurrence,” said a government spokesman, Dr. Emmanuel Andre, adding that her death “shook us”.
A staff member of the health authorities of the southern federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg demonstrates on a negative sample the test for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, in a laboratory in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on March 2, 2020. (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP)
It was the first death of a child in the coronavirus crisis gripping Belgium, which has now recorded a total of 705 deaths from the disease it causes, according to the latest official toll.
Source: OccupyGh.com
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