While most children infected with COVID-19 have mild or no symptoms at all, some can get severely ill, according to Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony, who on Friday disclosed that four children with the virus are in the Infectious Disease Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as he pleaded for citizens to take the necessary precautions.
Speaking during yesterday’s COVID-19, Anthony said that some 1,567 children between one-month and fourteen-years-old have been infected with COVID-19 in Guyana since the start of the pandemic. Of that number 287 were children between one-month and four-years-old, 524 between five and nine years old and 756 between ten to fourteen-years-old.
According to him, on most occasions it is by accident that children are diagnosed with the virus as they have no symptoms and would only be tested if someone in their family tests positive.