South Africa has extended its travel ban to stop the spread of coronavirus as officials confirmed its first cases of local transmission - including four children aged five and under
In addition, a cruise ship has been quarantined outside the port of Cape Town as a precaution after a crew member of a cargo ship who shared a flight with some passengers showed coronavirus symptoms.
The eight people have been evacuated and quarantined, and Transnet says the remaining cruise ship passengers are being quarantined and tested.Details of the four young children being diagnosed with the virus comes as more cases are beginning to emerge of children contracting the disease around the globe.was found to have been infected, while a second newborn baby has tested positive for COVID-19 in Britain and is being treated at James Paget University Hospital in Norfolk.
New findings in a study of more than 2,000 children in China - a third of laboratory confirmed cases and two-thirds of suspected cases - suggests the vast majority of children who contract the virus are"asymptomatic" or experience"mild or moderate" symptoms. "Children of all ages appeared susceptible to COVID-19, and there was no significant gender difference," academics from across China concluded in their report, published in the journal Pediatrics this week.
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