Six-week-old baby dies of Covid-19 in US


NEW YORK (AFP): A six-week-old infant has died of complications relating to Covid-19, the governor of the US state of Connecticut said on Wednesday (April 1), in one of the youngest recorded deaths from the virus.

Governor Ned Lamont tweeted that the newborn was "brought unresponsive to a hospital late last week and could not be revived".

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