The article examines the causes, symptoms and consequences of the development of coronavirus disease in pediatrics. It has been determined that coronavirus disease is usually easier in children than in adults; symptoms usually include headache, fever and cough. Severe variants of the development of coronavirus disease in children with concomitant diseases are possible. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a postinfectious complication of severe acute respiratory syndrome of coronavirus infection with pronounced cardiovascular and gastrointestinal symptoms.