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SINGAPORE, KOMPAS.com – A Singaporean woman gave birth to a baby who has antibodies against the coronavirus. The mother was infected with Covid-19 in March while she was pregnant.
Reuters quote the newspaper Strait timesOn Sunday (11/29/2020), he reported that the baby was born this month without having been exposed to Covid-19, but instead had antibodies against the virus.
“My doctor suspected that I had transferred my Covid-19 antibodies to her during my pregnancy,” Celine Ng-Chan told the newspaper.
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Quoted Kompas.com since VOA Indonesia, Ng-Chan developed mild symptoms due to the coronavirus and was discharged from the hospital after two and a half weeks.
Ng-Chan and the National University Hospital (NUH), where he was born, did not immediately comment.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that it is not yet known whether a pregnant woman with Covid-19 can transmit the virus to her fetus or baby during pregnancy or delivery.
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Until now, the active virus has not been found in fluid samples around the baby in the womb or in breast milk.
Doctors in China reported declines in Covid-19 antibodies over time in babies born to women who contracted the coronavirus, according to an article published in October in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Doctors at the New York-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center reported in October in JAMA Pediatrics that mother-to-newborn transmission of the new coronavirus is rare.
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