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More than 80 young people under the age of 2, up to one year of age, tested positive for coronavirus in a Texas county, a local fitness public official said, as the United States set a one-day record for new cases.
The director of public fitness for Nueces County on the Gulf Coast said 85 young people under the age of 2, totaling 52 children under one year old, tested positive for the virus.
“These young children have not yet turned their first birthday,” principal Annette Rodriguez said Friday about the toddlers in the group. “Please avoid the spread of this disease. Stay away from others; Stay protected. Wear a mask when you’re in public and for everyone, do the most productive thing to stay at home.”
First, Rodriguez told an assembly Friday that a review of coronavirus statistics had shown that 85 babies had tested positive. He clarified that on Saturday he said the total also includes young people aged 1 to 2. The figures were taken from the tests that began on 21 March 2020.
The fitness director added that she felt it was difficult for families to isolate these young people and that this circle of family members transmitted the virus.
He said less than 10 of the babies hospitalized.
Nueces County medical examiner Adel Shaker told NBC News Saturday that a 6-week-old boy who died last week tested positive for the virus. Shaker stated that he had not decided whether COVID-19 was the cause of death and that he was conducting additional tests to locate him.
His announcement came here when the United States set a single-day record with 75775 new reported virus instances, for the NBC News count. The death toll in the country has now exceeded 140,000.
Worldwide, more than 14 million people have tested positive for the virus and more than 600,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University and NBC News.
In India, the number of cases exceeded one million, with 26,273 deaths, according to the country’s Ministry of Health.
And in Latin America and the Caribbean, the death toll surpassed that of the United States and Canada for the first time. Only Europe recorded more deaths. Brazil, where more than two million cases of coronavirus have been reported, may have the number of deaths from the virus worldwide until the end of the month.
Latin America accounts for more than 50% of the world’s deaths, even though it accounts for only 8% of the world’s population.
In terms of cases shown, Brazil is number two in the world, only the United States. Peru now has the fifth highest number of instances displayed in the world. Mexico ranks seventh.
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said this week that the region’s gross domestic product of capital is expected to decline by 9.1% by 2020 due to the pandemic, the Associated Press reported.
Such a decline would bring back to 2010 GDP levels, which the UN commission described as a “lost decade.”
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