Two Young Students Collapsed And Died While Wearing Face Masks

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According to reports, two young Chinese boys dropped dead in a gym class within a week of one another while wearing face masks.

Australian outlet 7 News reported that the 14 year old students both collapsed on the track while running laps examination test.

On the 24th of April, one of the teen boys was only minutes into his gym class when he fell backward at Dancheng Caiyuan Middle School in Henan province.

“He was wearing a mask while lapping the running track, then he suddenly fell backwards and hit his head on the ground,” says Li, his father told the outlet.

His teachers, father and class mates made efforts to help him to no avail.

Cardiac arrest was listed as the cause of the boy's death on the death certificate despite the fact that no autopsy was performed, the outlet said.

The boy’s father firmly states that he believes the mask his son was mandated to wear to school played a role in his death.

“I suspect it was because he was wearing a mask,” he said, adding that “it couldn’t have been comfortable wearing a mask while running.”

But Cao Lanxiu, professor at Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine stands against this allegation saying it’s unlikely that the mask caused the boy to suffocate.

“I don’t think mask-wearing has caused this sudden death,” Cao said, though she added that it was impossible to say without an autopsy.

Six days after his death, the second student who had been running a 1,000 meter exam collapsed at Changsha’s Xiangjun Future Experimental School in Hunan province, the outlet reported.

The second boy was also wearing wearing an N95 respirator when the fatal incident occurred, according to reporr. It’s unclear whether an autopsy had been ordered.

Schools in Shanghai and Tiagin have now cancelled physical eeucations exams even though its unknown whether the masks played a role in either death of the young school boys says the report.