Three children have now died of an inflammatory condition that could be linked to coronavirus in New York. The illness is said to be similar to Kawasaki disease, which causes prolonged fever, abdominal pain, diarrhoea and other symptoms.
Three children in the US city have now died from the condition after a five-year-old boy became gravely ill, the Mirror reports.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told a press conference on Friday: “This is the last thing that we need at this time, with all that is going on, with all the anxiety we have, now for parents to have to worry about whether or not their youngster was infected. “One of the few rays of good news was young people weren’t affected.