WASHINGTON: A US infant has died from the COVID-19 illness, officials in the state of Illinois said on Saturday (Mar 28), marking an extremely rare case of juvenile death in the global pandemic.
At a news conference, Governor JB Pritzker said "an infant" was among the fatalities linked to the new coronavirus over the previous 24 hours.
Advertisement Advertisement The state Department of Public Health said the child who died in Chicago was younger than one year old and had tested positive for