A baby under the age of one died in the United States from Covid-19, the disease caused by a new coronavirus, Illinois state officials announced.
The disease has already caused more than 30,000 deaths, two-thirds of them in Europe, but it is rare to affect children and young victims are very rare.
“Today I have terribly sad information to announce. Among the deaths in the past 24 hours there was a state official (…) and a very young child,” said Governor J.B. Pritzker at a press conference.
And he added: “I know how difficult this news is to accept, especially when it comes to a very young child”.
The Illinois State Department of Health later said it was a child under the age of one, without revealing whether he suffered from other conditions.
The United States this week became the country with the most recorded cases of a new coronavirus, which has already affected 120,000 people there, of whom 2,000 died.
The pandemic that emerged in China in December has killed at least 30,003 people worldwide, two-thirds in Europe, according to an AFP balance at 7 pm, according to official data. There are over 600,000 reported cases.
In Portugal, 100 people have already died and there are more than five thousand infected.
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