An 11-year-old girl may have died of a new complication after catching coronavirus which scientists are linking to a syndrome similar to that of the deadly Kawasaki disease.
The youngster, who did not suffer from any other ailment, died on Wednesday in Spain. Tests showed she did have Covid-19 but doctors are not sure if this was the cause of her death.
They have confirmed she needed an urgent operation for the condition known as acute abdomen which led to intestinal ischemia (inadequate blood supply to the organ) and gastric perforation.
She died a few hours later in the Joan XXIII University Hospital of Tarragona. Regional newspaper Diario de Tarragona says that according to the first hypotheses, the little girl could have suffered a