WASHINGTON, D.C.: Nearly 800,000 children in the United States had been diagnosed with the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) since the onset of the pandemic, according to a new report of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.

A total of 94,555 new child cases were reported from October 8 to 22, which was a 14-percent increase in child cases over two weeks, according to the report.

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