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Children's risk of death and serious illness from Covid is 'extremely low'

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Children and young people are ‘extremely unlikely’ to become seriously ill from coronavirus, three new studies have found. Experts discovered that children have a one in 50,000 chance of being admitted to intensive care after testing positive for Covid-19.

It found that 251 people under the age of 18 were taken into ICU with Covid during the first year of the pandemic.The risk of children and teenagers dying from the virus is even lower - with estimates suggesting that the risk of death in people under 18 is approximately two in a million.A total of 25 children and young people had died as a result of the virus in England so far.

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