315 Covid-19 patients aged below 14, says Health D-G | Malay Mail

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PUTRAJAYA, April 16 — About six per cent or 315 of the 4,683 Covid-19 patients in Malaysia are aged below 14, said Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said a total of 83 patients were children aged below four years, with a similar number recorded for patients aged between...

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah giving a press conference on Covid-19 in MOH , Putrajaya April 16, 2020. — Picture by Choo Choy May

He said a total of 83 patients were children aged below four years, with a similar number recorded for patients aged between five and nine, while the remaining 149 were aged between 10 and 14. “If only the children are infected and the parents want to take care for them, then we will allow,” he said at the daily press conference on Covid-19 here today.

 

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