The Main Symptoms and Clinical Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease in Children: A Descriptive Minireview
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Coronaviruses (coronaviruses) are a large family of viruses that cause diseases in both humans and animals. It is known that the emerging corona affects the respiratory system in addition to other more serious diseases such as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Recently, a new type of corona virus appeared and caused the death of many around the world, and it is still continuing until now, as it claimed the lives of millions of people and infected more than 200 million around the world. Infection of children with the virus usually causes an infection in the upper respiratory tract, which is accompanied by symptoms and signs similar to those that appear when infection with other viral infections such as influenza and cold symptoms.
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