A ten-year-old Latin boy from East County who died on January 23 has now died in the region’s latest COVID-19 related death, according to the latest San County County coronavirus detection report released Friday.
It was a day for grim records. In addition to the youngest, a 106-year-old man, also from East County, has become the oldest local COVID-related death among the 2,777 announced so far.
Previously, the youngest to have had such serious consequences after a new coronavirus infection was a 19-year-old man who died on January 3rd. The previous oldest COVID-19 accident was a 104-year-old woman from the “north-central” part of the province who died on January 1, according to provincial records.
Both the oldest and youngest were said to have had other health problems, except that they tested positive for the virus. Thirty-seven of the 39 deaths announced in Friday’s report have other health problems.
It was not immediately clear why it took almost two weeks before the ten-year-old’s death was reported to the public. In general, the country’s health department said reporting delays could be caused by the time it takes to process death certificates, or due to a delay in a hospital reporting the loss of public health.
As always, the country did not disclose any information about the specific circumstances – including what other diseases were involved – in the losses. Such details are not related to individual deaths, for fear that they may more easily identify those who have died.
In general, death was very uncommon among those under 18 years of age. According to preliminary deaths listed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 67 children aged five to 14 died after a confirmed coronavirus infection among more than 421,000 COVID-related deaths nationwide. It is known to be incomplete, given the delays that sometimes occur on reporting.
While the community continued to record the deaths of those admitted to the hospital in December and January, the local pandemic remains far below the previous daily new case, which was more than 4,000 several times after the holidays.
However, Friday’s report showed a slight increase. After two days below 1,000, the daily total was 1,453 Thursday after Wednesday’s score of 1,598.
Total COVID-related hospitalizations continued to decline, reaching 1,183 with 353 intensive care beds.