BREAKING: Some children dead after contracting 'Kawasaki disease linked to coronavirus'
Some children in the UK with no underlying health conditions have died from a rare inflammatory syndrome which researchers believe to be linked to coronavirus, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said this morning.pandemic and clusters of severe inflammatory disease among infants who are arriving in hospital with high fevers and swollen arteries.
Doctors in northern Italy, one of the world’s hardest-hit areas during the pandemic, have reported extraordinarily large numbers of children under age 9 with severe cases of whatMr Hancock told LBC Radio: ‘There are some children who have died who didn’t have underlying health conditions.
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