Nearly 12.9 mln children in U.S. infected with COVID-19

LOS ANGELES, April 12 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 12.9 million children in the United States have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to the latest report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association.

Over 114,000 of these cases have been added in the past 4 weeks. Since the first week of last September, there have been over 7.8 million additional child COVID-19 cases in the country, according to the report published late Monday.