114 newborns tested positive for COVID-19
20:17, 4 November 2020
NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM Kazakhstan registered 3,164 coronavirus cases in children, including 114 newborns, Kazinform reports.
«1,810 cases are not laboratory-confirmed. No death was reported in children,» Vice Minister of Healthcare Azhar Giniyat told an online briefing.
85% of kids were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms, 14.2% had moderate symptoms, while 19 had severe symptoms that is 06% of all coronavirus cases.
340 kids are receiving treatment for coronavirus, including 3 infants, 337 of them are 28 days old to 18 years. 55 of them were taken to hospital, 285 received outpatient treatment. 7 of them had COVID-19-like pneumonia.
There are 200 pupils, 18 preschoolers diagnosed with COVID-19 are being monitored today.
As the Healthcare Ministry said 519 Kazakhstani schoolchildren contracted the novel infection the countrywide.