A new father who had possible symptoms of coronavirus lied about feeling sick in order to visit his expectant wife and child in a maternity ward at Rochester’s Strong Memorial Hospital.

The Democrat & Chronicle reports that the unidentified visitor only confessed that he, too, had been feeling ill, when his wife began to show symptoms of COVID-19 shortly after giving birth last week.

“The mother became symptomatic shortly after delivering. That’s when the significant other admitted his potential exposure and that he was feeling symptomatic," UR Medicine spokesman Chip Partner told the paper.

Privacy laws prevented Partner from disclosing whether the mother, father or newborn actually developed COVID-19.

The incident caused the UR Medicine hospital network — which includes Strong, Highland Hospital and three other affiliated hospitals with maternity services — to announce that all visitors would now have their temperatures taken before being allowed to visit maternity centers.

“It was purely an honor system before,” Partner told the D&C. “Now we’re adding the temperature check.”

UR Medicine hospitals, like many others in New York, began blocking most visitors two weeks ago to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 to vulnerable patients.

At Syracuse’s St. Joseph’s Hospital, tents were erected outside the emergency department where patients were screened before entering the building.

Concealing coronavirus symptoms can cause problems beyond just spreading the highly communicable virus. In China, one woman is facing up to seven years in prison after she flew from Massachusetts back to China, concealing symptoms and putting other passengers on the flight at risk.

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