Britain's top medics are probing a potential link between an inflammatory disease which severely affects children and could be linked to the coronavirus.
Health minister Matt Hancock said he was "very worried" about reports of children struggling with severe symptoms that might have a link to COVID-19 - but stressed it was too soon to say if there was a link.
A dozen children have been taken to intensive care with the symptoms which appear similar to toxic shock syndrome. "We have become aware in the last few days of reports of severe illness in children which might be a Kawasaki-like disease," Stephen Powis, national medical director for England, said, referring to a syndrome which causes inflammation of blood vessels. "I've asked the
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