SARS - CoV and SARS - CoV - 2 infection in children may be similar in fever and cough, a relatively low prevalence of chest pain and dyspnea was observed in both diseases, suggesting a less common infection of the tract lower respiratory tract in children. Also, patients with rhinorrhea were 16 times more likely to be children, while patients with cough were twice as likely to be adults, nonspecific symptoms such as anorexia, dizziness, abdominal pain and headache were seen in children with SARS. These nonspecific symptoms may also be seen in children with COVID - 19. In particular, gastrointestinal symptoms in COVID - 19 patients may implicate the route of infection. This study has some limitations. The size of the cohort of children was small, so some symptoms such as headache and abdominal pain were not observed. However, the prevalence of these symptoms was expected to remain low as the sample in the study is sufficiently random to reduce any systematic bias related to symptoms.