Indonesia is now experiencing more than 1,500 deaths from...

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    Indonesia is now experiencing more than 1,500 deaths from COVID-19 each day on a seven-day average.

    According to the Indonesian Pediatric Society, there have been more than 360,000 confirmed cases among children, accounting for one in eight infections. Additionally, over 700 children have died from COVID-19 in the last few weeks, at a rate of over 100 per week.

    In Brazil, COVID-19 has become the leading cause of death among children ages 10-19, cutting down at least 1,581 youth in just the first six months of 2021. Another 1,187 children under 10 years old have succumbed to the virus since the start of the pandemic.

    In the UK, over 40 children are now being hospitalized with COVID-19 each day, alongside a general surge in the number of children becoming infected. Roughly 33,000 children ages 2-16 and 71,000 young people ages 17–24 have gone on to develop Long COVID, with symptoms lasting beyond 12 weeks.

    Similar surges of child infections and hospitalizations are taking place wherever the Delta variant is surging in the US, including in Florida, Alabama and throughout the South, as well as Missouri and a growing number of states.
    Over 100 children died from COVID-19 in Indonesia each week in July - World Socialist Web Site (wsws.org)
 
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