JAKARTA: An 11-year-old girl has become Indonesia’s youngest person to die after contracting the coronavirus, officials said Wednesday, as the country...
Morgue workers prepare coffins for victims of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak in Bekasi, West Java, on April 1, 2020. - AFPAn 11-year-old girl has become Indonesia’s youngest person to die after contracting the coronavirus, officials said Wednesday, as the country’s death toll from Covid-19 nearly tripled from a week ago.
The girl, who was also suffering from dengue fever, was admitted to hospital on Madura Island off the coast of Java on March 19.Tests only confirmed this week that the girl also had Covid-19. “Her immune system was quite poor,“ said Joni Wahyuhadi, an official at East Java’s virus task force.Indonesia said Wednesday its death toll from Covid-19 had reached 157 - including 11 frontline doctors - compared with 58 a week ago.But rates of testing are low and experts fear the true figures are far higher in the country of more than 260 million people.
While the virus is most dangerous for the elderly, there have been a number of cases around the world of younger people dying. -
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