Gholamreza Soleimani, S. Yaghoubi, Elham Shafighi Shahri
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Introduction: COVID-19 is a new respiratory infection caused by the coronavirus, which the World Health Organization (WHO) declared as a global epidemic in 2019. All the information obtained about this virus was different in children than in adults. Case Presentation: The case investigated in this study was a 10-year-old boy with hemoptysis and gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding in his post-COVID-19 recovery phase. Conclusions: COVID-19 can have a variety of presentations and complications beyond the classic respiratory symptoms and fever. This case is important and shows how COVID-19 can be life-threatening.