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MONTHLY COVID-19 IN CHILDREN
This report is made up of epidemiology and clinical characteristics of laboratory confirmed COVID-19 among children and adolescents aged ≤18 years, South Africa, 1 March 2020 – 4 December 2021.
Key highlights:
- As of 4 December 2021, individuals aged ≤19 years made up 14.8% of SARS-CoV-2 tests, 12.5% of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases, 5.0% of all COVID-19-associated admissions and 0.7% of COVID-19 associated in-hospital deaths.
- There have been 2.86 million tests conducted among individuals aged ≤19 years, 378 083 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases aged ≤19 years, 20 346 reported COVID-19-associated admissions and 658 COVID-19-related in-hospital deaths during the surveillance period.
- The weekly test rates, incidence of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases and incidence of COVID-19-associated admissions among individuals aged ≤19 years in Gauteng has been increasing from week 45 of 2021, eight weeks since the end of the third wave in week 37 of 2021.
- To date, Gauteng province has contributed the highest proportion of tests 779 056 (27.2%), cases 102 524 (27.1%) and admissions 5 934 (29.2%) among individuals aged ≤19 years.
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