97,000 Kids Tested Positive for COVID-19 in Two Weeks

Shafaq news/ the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) finds that nearly 100,000 children have tested positive for the coronavirus in the last two weeks of July.

The AAP reported 97,000 kids tested positive in the U.S. from July 16 to July 30, bringing the total cases in children to 338,000.

It added that so far, The U.S. topped five million cases of Covid-19.

“In order to continue to research and study the impacts of the virus in kids and the role they play in transmitting the virus to others, School officials in more than 13,000 school districts have been asked to returning children to personal classrooms for the new school year.

Despite those numbers, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday that schools in New York City could reopen in the fall.