11-year-old Indonesian Young girl dies after contracting virus

As painful as it sounds, An 11- Year old Indonesian Young girl dies after contracting the deadly Coronavirus even when Experts reports they virus effects are more deadly on above 18 year old humans.

The young girl was reportedly suffering from dengue fever, was admitted to hospital on Madura Island off the coast of Java on March 19.

She had a fever and breathing difficulties and died the following day. Medical Tests later carried out on her only confirmed this week that the girl also had COVID-19.

“Her immune system was quite poor,” said Joni Wahyuhadi, an official at East Java’s virus task force.

“She was battling two illnesses at once so that’s why her condition worsened.”

Further more, indonesia said Wednesday its death toll from COVID-19 had reached 157 — including 11 frontline doctors — compared with 58 a week ago.

Infections have more than doubled over the same period to 1,677.

But rates of testing are low and experts fear the true figures are far higher in the country of more than 260 million people.

While the virus is most dangerous for the elderly, there have been a number of cases around the world of younger people dying.