Child cases of COVID-19 in the US fall 7% with 225,000 under-18s testing positive last week

More than 225,000 COVID-19 cases were recorded among children and teens last week, a 7.1% decline from the 243,00 cases recorded the week before. Under-18s accounted for 25.7% of all U.S. cases recorded last week with a total of 5.5 million since the pandemic began. The South has the most weekly child Covid cases with 110,000 reported while the Northeast had the fewest with about 10,000. There have been 480 Covid deaths among children, meaning kids make up less than 0.1% of all deaths in the U.S.