Pamela Cruz. Pen sula 360 Press [P360P]
Since a cluster of pneumonia cases due to unknown causes was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has spread rapidly around the world, according to a study published in a British journal.
Globally, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, there are around 79 million 712 thousand confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1 million 747 thousand 790 deaths; while in the US there are 18 million 733 thousand cases and 330 thousand deaths.
And although there is a belief among the population that children are not affected by this disease, statistics from Asia, Europe and North America show that pediatric cases could represent up to 7.8 percent of confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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