Forensic Science Negotiation Director Maria Conte Miller confirmed that minors have died in Puerto Rico from coronavirus, COVID-19.
According to the Department of Health, on its digital portal have reported a total of 2,984 people killed by COVID, a figure that increased with the 17 that were reported today.
In an interview with Wapa television in the space The Data Are The Data, Conte Miller confirmed of at least three minors who were evaluated in forensics and died from the virus, not from other pre-existing conditions.
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When asked if the minors have been under the age of 12, the official stated that “we have had cases of COVID of minors, it is true, but we have reported them, we have detected them and we have reported them. Yes we’ve had two or three cases, “he said.
“We had a 13-year-old girl and we had two cases, a five-year-old girl and another case of another minor as well,” he added.
In Puerto Rico, there are an average of 145,664 cumulative positive cases detected with molecular tests and 30,232 with antigen tests. Hospitalizations are found in 399 among adults and minors.