Coronavirus Update: Six-week-old infant dies of Covid-19 in USworldUpdated: Apr 02, 2020 07:42 ISTA six-week-old infant has died of complications relating to COVID-19, the governor of the US state of Connecticut said Wednesday, in one of the youngest recorded deaths from the virus. Governor Ned Lamont tweeted that the newborn was “brought unresponsive to a hospital late last week and could not be revived.”“Testing confirmed last night that the newborn was COVID-19 positive,” Lamont said. New York state, which Connecticut borders, has been particularly hard hit by Covid-19, accounting for nearly 2,000 of the US deaths. Residents of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey are among the millions of Americans ordered to stay home unless they work jobs deemed essential. “This is a virus that attacks our most fragile without mercy,” Lamont tweeted.

Source: Hindustan Times April 02, 2020 02:13 UTC