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The mother is understood to have been rushed to a hospital in the capital days earlier with suspected pneumonia. The Sun has reported the child and mother are being treated at separate hospital. The mother was tested at North Middlesex Hospital and was positive but the result was only known after birth.

The baby was tested within minutes of arrival and now doctors are trying to establish whether the child was infected during birth or contracted the virus in the womb. A source said: “Staff in contact with both patients have been advised to self-isolate. “Health officials are urgently trying to find out the circumstances behind their infections.” The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has advised healthy babies should be separated from mothers who have been infected and can be breastfed with officials stressing pregnant women and babies are of lower risk and most will have mild symptoms.

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The mother was tested at North Middlesex Hospital

The news comes as the Government announced it would move out of the ‘containment’ phase to ‘delay’. On Friday morning, the Department of Health and Social Care confirmed 32,771 people had been tested with 798 testing positive, at the time 10 had died, though this has since increased to 11. The Department tweeted: “If you have symptoms of coronavirus, it’s important that you stay at home for 7 days to help protect your friends and neighbours.” It announced it was to advise against “all overseas education trips for children under 18” also. READ MORE: Coronavirus pandemic could last YEARS, health expert warns Government

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They explained: “This is because trip leaders would face significant challenges in making arrangements to ensure children’s welfare, should adult supervisors or children become ill and be requited to self-isolate.” British Airways boss Alex Cruz has warned the hit from coronavirus could cause “short term, perhaps long term” job cuts in a memo to staff. Mr Cruz wrote: "We can no longer sustain our current level of employment and jobs would be lost - perhaps for a short term, perhaps longer term." It comes after supermarket chain Morrisons announced it is to pay small suppliers immediately to keep them afloat. DON'T MISS



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He said: "At all stages we have been guided by the science and we will do the right things at the right time. "We are not closing schools now, the scientific advice is that this could do more harm than good at this time. "Of course we are keeping this under review and this may change as the disease spreads.

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