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Positive for covid-19 after excorting their students to the paralympics. blake essig has more from tokyo. >> reporter: for more than a month, this is what it's looked like inside hospitals and clinics across tokyo. children, some cases as young as 1-month-old, testing positive for covid-19. fueled by the delta variant, the number of kids testing positive for covid has increased by about 350% since the end of july at dr. takeda's clinic. for people under the age of 20, confirmed cases of tokyo increased nearly 270%. >> translator: i don't think it's surprising. the infection between children wi...