Indonesia's suspected child coronavirus deaths highlight danger | Coronavirus pandemic ... - 0 views
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Hundreds of children in Indonesia are believed to have died from COVID-19, giving the Southeast Asian country one of the world's highest rates of child deaths from the novel coronavirus, which experts around the world say poses little danger to the young. Paediatricians and health officials in the world's fourth-most-populous country said the high number of child deaths from a disease that mostly kills the elderly was due to underlying factors, in particular malnutrition, anaemia and inadequate child health facilities.
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Since Indonesia announced its first coronavirus case in March, it has recorded 2,000 deaths, the highest in the Asia Pacific outside China.
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Indonesia, a developing country of 270 million, suffers from a "triple burden of malnutrition," which includes stunting, anaemia among mothers, and obesity, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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