The World Health Organization has said it is studying a possible link between Covid-19 and a rare inflammatory illness that has sickened children in Europe and the United States, some of whom later died.
In recent weeks, several countries have reported cases of children affected by the condition with symptoms similar to those of a rare condition, Kawasaki disease. "Initial reports hypothesise that this syndrome may be related to Covid-19," WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing. "It is critical to urgently and carefully characterise this clinical syndrome, to understand causality and to describe treatment interventions," he said.