KUALA LUMPUR: More than 400,000 cases of Covid-19 involving individuals under the age of 18 were recorded this year, up from about 12,000 cases last year, says Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.
He said from the cases reported this year, which included 67 deaths, 252,569 involved schoolchildren while 42,831 were pre-school students.
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