Hospitalisations of children with Covid-19 have doubled compared with two weeks ago, according to the Director of the Makarios hospital’s paediatrics clinic, Dr. Avraam Elia.
Around one in three children being treated at the Makarios hospital were due to Covid-19, he added.
“It usually concerns small children, under the age of the five, though we also have older children, but it is usually the younger ones that may present with high fever, loss of appetite, or are feeling unwell,” Dr. Elia told CNA. Some children, he added, may even have febrile seizures and need to be hospitalised.
According to Dr. Elia hospitalisations of children with Covid-19 have doubled compared with two weeks ago when they were treating around five such cases.
He said they were now dealing with the greatest number of hospitalisations in relation to Covid-
Source: Cyprus News Agency