Clusters of children and teens with Covid-19 in Europe and North America have been admitted to the intensive care unit with features similar to Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome. — AFP
Kawasaki disease was first described in 1967 by a Japanese paediatrician, Dr Tomisaku Kawasaki.
The first cases outside of Japan were reported in Hawaii, United States, in 1976.
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