Muscat: Children do get infected by Covid-19 and they may or may not show symptoms, but the possibility of transmission of infection remains.
"Here are some of the most common symptoms that appear in children infected with Covid-19, high temperature, persistent cough, headache and muscle pain, sore throat, cough and vomiting, runny and stuffy nose, loss of appetite," the Government Communications Centre said.
Recently, a number of critical cases of children infected with COVID-19 have been reported in different hospitals in the Sultanate and doctors call on parents to pay attention when symptoms appear on children and the importance of taking precautionary measures to avoid transmission of infection to children.