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


LOS ANGELES, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Over 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.

Almost 116,000 of these cases have been added in the past 4 weeks. Since the first week of last September, there have been almost 7.9 million additional child COVID-19 cases in the country, according to the report published late Monday.

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