The child had no other known medical or hereditary diseases.
In Qatar, on Sunday, January 16, a three-week-old baby died from complications of COVID-19.
This is with reference to the Qatari Ministry of Health reports The Guardian.
According to the department, the child had no other known medical or hereditary diseases. It is noted that this is the second coronavirus-related death among children in the country since the beginning of the pandemic.
The publication indicates that infant mortality from COVID-19 is quite rare, but after the spread of the new Omicron strain, an increase in the incidence among minors was recorded in several countries.
The Qatar Ministry of Health, for its part, added that young people are generally less at risk of a severe course of coronavirus when compared with the elderly, however, “in this current wave, more children who need medical care become infected than in previous waves.” .
Earlier, in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, two babies were hospitalized after being erroneously vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer in collaboration with the German corporation BioNTech.
