Children less sick from Covid-19, but still spread the virus

Children wearing face masks amid concerns over the spread of coronavirus, waiting for their school bus unaware that public gatherings and schools are shut following late-night state government order, at a village in Kannauj, in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh. Schoolkids have severe symptoms when infected by Covid-19 (coronavirus) and may even be a bit less likely to get the disease in the first place, experts have announced. - AP

BEIJING/PARIS: For reasons unknown, children rarely have severe symptoms when infected by Covid-19 (coronavirus) and may even be a bit less likely to get the disease in the first place, experts have announced.

But that doesn't mean infants, toddlers and teens are not carriers for the new coronavirus, which jumped from animals to humans in central China at the end of last year.