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COVID-19 poses some unique challenges for Africa's children
Jun 5, 2020
COVID-19 symptoms in children can be similar to those of other common diseases in Africa. Malaria and sickle cell anaemia, in particular, can be hard to differentiate from COVID-19 and must be tested for. Constraints on availability mean few children in Africa are being tested for the virus, however.
The COVID 19 pandemic is ravaging the world indiscriminately - but a combination of medical, political and societal factors means the coronavirus presents a particular set of complications for children in West Africa.
In general, children who catch COVID-19 display milder symptoms - as an investigation carried out into the case reports of 2,135 children infected with the disease in and around Wuhan has confirmed. Some children show no symptoms at all.
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Nine out of 10 children will display mild symptoms such as fever, cough, fatigue, vomiting, nausea and diarrhoea. Some form of reactive airways symptomatology (such as wheezing and shortness of breath) is seen in about half of affected children. In most cases, pneumonia is a sign that the disease is increasing in severity and as such should be observed closely in ill children.
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