EPIDEMIOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE COURSE OF THE NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTION IN CHILDREN

Abstract

The article analyzes 232 case histories of children with COVID-19. The paper gives the epidemiological features of coronavirus infection in children from 0-14 years old who received treatment at the Republican Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital for the period March 2020. to March 2022, periods of epidemiological rise in incidence (“2nd and 3rd waves of COVID-19”). An increase in the number of hospitalized children during the “3rd wave of COVID-19”, a predominance (56.8%) of school-age children, an increase in severe forms of the disease and an increase in hospitalizations in the Republican Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital are shown. The highest incidence rates (96.1%) were in Bishkek city, Chui region. During the observation period, there was a wave-like rise in the incidence with the development of the “2nd and 3rd waves of COVID-19”. A territorial mosaic of the incidence of COVID-19 in children was revealed. Laboratory confirmation of COVID-19 (U07.1) infection in children was in 88.7% of cases, detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal swabs by real- time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).