By Le Figaro with AFP
A baby under one year old died in the United States of Covid-19, announced this Saturday March 28 the governor of the state of Illinois. The disease is said to save children relatively, and very young victims are very rare. This child from the state of Illinois is one of the youngest victims of the pandemic.
“Today, I have terribly sad information to report. Among the deaths in the past 24 hours, there was a state employee […] and a very young child“Said Governor J.B. Pritzker at a press conference. “I know how hard this news is to accept, especially when it comes to a very young child“, He added, without specifying if 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.
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