Over 12 mln children in U.S. infected with COVID-19

Special: Battle Against Novel Coronavirus

Over 12 million children in the United States have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to the latest report of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association.

A total of 12,042,870 child COVID-19 cases had been reported across the country as of Feb. 3, and children represented 18.9 percent of all confirmed cases, according to the report published late Monday.

COVID-19 cases among children have spiked dramatically across the United States during the Omicron variant surge.

Almost 4.2 million child cases were reported since the beginning of January. For the week ending Feb. 3, nearly 632,000 additional child COVID-19 cases were reported, according to the report.

Over 1.4 million child cases have been added in the past 2 weeks.

This marks the 26th week in a row child COVID-19 cases in the United States are above 100,000. Since the first week of September, there have been nearly 7 million additional child cases, according to the AAP.