Amidst the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, a nine-year-old boy has died in France due to Kawasaki-like disease. This has been allegedly linked to coronavirus, as reported by the doctors who treated him at the paediatric intensive care unit at La Timone hospital in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille. They have also stated that this disease is relatively rare than the COVID-19 infection, and said that inflammation of blood vessels and cardiac damage are “much more pronounced” in cases suspected of being linked to COVID-19 compared with classic, rare Kawasaki disease.
According to France’s public health agency, the country has had more than 125 in the last fortnight and patients aged from one to 14
Similar cases of child fatalities are now being investigated in the neighbouring countries of UK and Italy.
However, over the last five years, there have only been a total of 19 cases of the Kawasaki disease reported, says the Lancet.
Scientists are still trying to confirm whether the syndrome is linked with the new coronavirus because not all children with it have tested positive for the virus.