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Nearly 120,000 kids below 12 contracted Covid since January

Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin says children with Covid-19 also show multi-system inflammatory syndrome, which affects the heart, lung and brain. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 9, 2021.

THE number of children below the age of 12 with Covid-19 has increased compared with the last two years, with 119,719 cases since the beginning of the year alone, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said today. He said in 2020, there were only 7,730 infections among newborns to those aged 11 years. This increased significantly to 379,245 last year.

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