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WHO probing possible COVID-19 link to rare disease in children

GENEVA, May 15, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The World Health Organization said Friday it was studying a possible link between COVID-19 and an illness similar to Kawasaki disease that has sickened and killed children in Europe and the United States.

“Initial reports hypothesise that this syndrome may be related to COVID-19,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing, calling on clinicians worldwide to help “better understand this syndrome in children.”

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