Child dies in France with symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease

A nine-year-old child died in France after registering symptoms similar to those of Kawasaki's disease, described in young people who had contact with the coronavirus, the first such death in the country, his doctor announced today.

The child, who died due to “neurological damage linked to cardiac arrest”, had “a serology that showed he had been in contact” with the coronavirus, but did not have the symptoms of Covid-19, the agency France-Presse said. Professor Fabrice Michel, head of the pediatric resuscitation service at La Timone in Marseille (south-east), confirming information from the daily La Provence.
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