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Health chiefs 'unaware' of children's deaths from new illness linked to coronavirus | Metro News
Health chiefs are ‘unaware’ of UK children’s deaths from a rare inflammatory syndrome which researchers believe to be linked to coronavirus.
It comes after Health Secretary Matt Hancock told LBC some children had died without underlying health conditions.
Italian and British medical experts are investigating a possible link between the coronavirus pandemic and clusters of severe inflammatory disease among infants who are arriving in hospital with high fevers and swollen arteries.
Doctors in northern Italy, one of the world’s hardest-hit areas during the pandemic, have reported extraordinarily large numbers of children under age 9 with severe cases of what appears to be Kawasaki disease, more common in parts of Asia.
Mr Hancock told LBC Radio: ‘There are some children who have died who didn’t have underlying health conditions.’
The Department of Health said that Mr Hancock was not referring to children who have died from the inflammatory syndrome potentially linked to the disease – and was discussing Covid-19 deaths in general.
Health chiefs are ‘unaware’ of UK children’s deaths from a rare inflammatory syndrome which researchers believe to be linked to coronavirus.
It comes after Health Secretary Matt Hancock told LBC some children had died without underlying health conditions.
Italian and British medical experts are investigating a possible link between the coronavirus pandemic and clusters of severe inflammatory disease among infants who are arriving in hospital with high fevers and swollen arteries.
Doctors in northern Italy, one of the world’s hardest-hit areas during the pandemic, have reported extraordinarily large numbers of children under age 9 with severe cases of what appears to be Kawasaki disease, more common in parts of Asia.
Mr Hancock told LBC Radio: ‘There are some children who have died who didn’t have underlying health conditions.’
The Department of Health said that Mr Hancock was not referring to children who have died from the inflammatory syndrome potentially linked to the disease – and was discussing Covid-19 deaths in general.
