Tragedy as 15-year-old boy with Covid-19 and meningitis DIES in a Sydney hospital despite the desperate prayers of his Muslim community as Delta infects more young people

• Osama Suduh, 15, from Sydney's virus-hit south-west, has died in hospital
• He was admitted to hospital with meningitis, but tested positive to Covid-19  
• Teenager understood to have died on Sunday after being put on life support
• Family pleaded with Islamic community to pray for him before it was too late
• Sydney had 415 Covid-19 cases with 63 patients in intensive care on Sunday

A 15-year-old boy has become the youngest victim of Australia's Covid Delta crisis after dying from meningitis in hospital while infected with the virus. 

Osama Suduh, from Sydney's Covid-hit south-west, was last week moved into intensive care and placed on life support after testing positive to Covid-19.

He was admitted to hospital though with pneumococcal meningitis - a life-threatening infectious disease that causes inflammation of the layers surrounding the brain and spinal cord. 

The Kingsgrove North High School student is understood to have died at Sydney's Children Hospital in Randwick on Sunday. 

His cousin confirmed the tragic news to Daily Mail Australia on Monday.

A spokesman for the hospital said the teenager was not vaccinated against Covid-19 but was up-to-date with his routine childhood vaccinations. 

Osama's distraught relatives had earlier begged the Islamic community to pray for a miraculous recovery before it was too late. 

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'I'm urging you all to make sincere dua for our young brother Osama, 15 years old, who's currently on life support due to Covid,' they wrote online.

'Doctors have told us that his life support will be turned off. Our only hope is for a miracle.'

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce on Monday morning described Osama's death as a 'tragedy'.

'What an incredible tragedy it was for that young man to die last night,' he told Sunrise. 

In a press conference on Sunday morning, NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant confirmed a 15-year-old boy with Covid-19 was in hospital.  

The teenager's family asked their community to pray for the teenager.

'Please ask Allah the all Powerful, the Most Merciful to make the impossible possible for our young brother Osama to remove the illness from his body that leaves no trace of existence behind,' they said.

'This is every parent's worst nightmare Ya Allah help this family and all who know and love Osama. Remove this anguish and pain with calmness and ease.

'May we see you again with your big smile.'

Hundreds of people answered the call with with prayers and messages of support.

'Please don't let them turn off the life support,' one person wrote.

Another wrote: 'Ya rab [Oh lord] he recovers and leave no trace of illness in his body and bring this beautiful boy back to his family.' 

'I ask the almighty Allah to cure you! And return you healthy to your family,' said someone else. 

Dr Chant said Osama's family had given their permission for details about his case to be shared with the public.

'This has been cleared by his family. I can confirm that there is someone admitted to hospital that is 15 and that the cause of their admission, while they are Covid positive, is related to another health condition,' she told reporters on Sunday.

'The family has agreed that we can indicate that he has pneumococcal meningitis.'

There were 415 new cases of Covid-19 in NSW on Sunday - 345 were under investigation, while 87 people were in the community for all or part of the time they were infectious.

Four people died in the 24 hours to 8pm on Saturday, including an unvaccinated woman in her 50s, another in her 70s who had one jab, a man in his 80s and a vaccinated woman in her 80s who had an underlying health condition.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the new infections are concentrated around western Sydney, specifically in Blacktown, Mount Druitt, Merion, Maryland, Orban and Guildford - near where Osama Subuh lives in the city's south-west. 

There are 63 people in NSW in ICU with Covid.