TORONTO --
A 3-week-old toddler in Qatar has died from a "extreme" case of COVID-19, the nation’s Ministry of Public Well being introduced in an announcement revealed on Twitter.
“The Ministry of Public Well being confirms that a 3-week-old child has sadly died because of extreme an infection from COVID-19. The infant had no different recognized medical or hereditary circumstances,” the assertion, issued Sunday, stated.
“[This] is simply the second youngster to have died from COVID-19 in Qatar because the begin of the pandemic.”
The ministry went on to notice that whereas kids are much less vulnerable to extreme sickness in comparison with older adults, “a better variety of kids are being contaminated on this present wave and needing medical care than in earlier waves.”
The small nation of two.88 million folks positioned within the Persian Gulf has recorded a complete of 299,242 COVID-19 instances and 626 deaths because the begin of the pandemic, in accordance with CTVNews.ca's world case tracker.
Like well being authorities in Canada and elsewhere, the Qatari ministry urged the general public to get vaccinated as quickly as attainable, together with those that are pregnant, however didn't specify whether or not the newborn’s mom was vaccinated or not.
Final month, an toddler who was lower than two months previous and had no pre-existing well being points died from the illness at a hospital in Montreal.
And an increase in toddler hospitalizations attributable to COVID-19 prompted a gaggle of Ontario hospitals to situation an announcement in early January encouraging those that had been pregnant to get vaccinated. Vaccination throughout being pregnant permits antibodies to switch to the newborn at delivery. Child immune methods have hassle combating illness with out these maternal antibodies, Toronto's Hospital for Sick Youngsters, McMaster Youngsters's Hospital, the Youngsters's Hospital of Jap Ontario and Kingston Well being Sciences Centre stated in a joint assertion.
These eligible and dwelling in the identical family as somebody pregnant had been additionally inspired to get the shot and train the mandatory public well being precautions.
Newborns have small airways which are simply blocked, a widely known danger amongst pediatricians, in accordance with Dr. Jesse Papenburg, a Montreal pediatric epidemiologist.
A brand new examine revealed final week a database of greater than 145,000 pregnancies in Scotland between December 2020 and October 2021 discovered that 77.4 per cent of those that bought COVID-19 whereas pregnant had been unvaccinated. This group additionally made up 90.9 per cent of COVID-19 associated hospital admissions and 98 per cent of admissions to the intensive care unit, in accordance with the examine, which additionally discovered 11 stillbirths and eight new child deaths, all of which concerned dad and mom who had been unvaccinated.
With information from CTVNews.ca author Tom Yun, CTV Information Montreal Cindy Sherwin and Selena Ross, The Canadian Press.
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