Indonesian children caught in ‘devil’s circle’ of coronavirus and malnutrition, killing hundreds

Hundreds of children in Indonesia are believed to have died from Covid-19, giving the Southeast Asian country one of the world’s highest rates of child deaths from the novel coronavirus that experts around the world say poses little danger to the young.Paediatricians and health officials in the world’s fourth most populous country said the high number of child deaths from a disease that mostly kills the elderly was due to underlying factors, in particular malnutrition, anaemia and inadequate…

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