Newborn baby is youngest person in world to be infected with coronavirus

A newborn baby in England has tested positive for coronavirus. The child’s mother had been rushed to a London hospital days earlier with suspected pneumonia.

A newborn baby tested positive for coronavirus, making the child the world’s youngest person to test positive for the deadly virus

Overnight, she and her tot were being treated at separate hospitals.

The mum was tested at North Middlesex Hospital but her positive result was known only after the birth.

Medics are trying to establish whether the tot was infected during birth, or contracted the virus in the womb.

The baby remains at the hospital while the mum has been moved to a specialist infections hospital.

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According to source: 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 that healthy babies should not be separated from infected mums and can be breastfed.

Health officials stress pregnant women and babies are at low risk of complications from the virus and most will have mild symptoms.

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