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A woman who was pregnant when she was infected with COVID reportedly gave her son antibodies against the virus.
A Singaporean woman who was pregnant when she was infected with the coronavirus in March reportedly gave birth to a baby with antibodies to the disease, offering a new clue as to whether the infection can be passed from mother to child.
The baby, who was born this month, does not have COVID-19 but does have antibodies to the virus, the Straits Times reported Sunday, citing the mother.
“My doctor suspects that I have transferred my COVID-19 antibodies to her during my pregnancy,” Celine Ng-Chan told the newspaper.
Ng-Chan had been mildly ill from the illness and was released from the hospital after two and a half weeks, he said.
Ng-Chan and the National University Hospital, where she gave birth, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Rare transmission
The World Health Organization says 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.
To date, the active virus has not been found in fluid samples around babies in the womb or in breast milk.
Doctors in China have reported the detection and decline over time of COVID-19 antibodies in babies born to women with coronavirus, according to an article published in October in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Transmission of the coronavirus from mothers to newborns is rare, doctors at Columbia University-Presbyterian University Irving Medical Center in New York reported in October in JAMA Pediatrics.
While Singapore has recorded just over 58,000 COVID infections, there are currently more than 62.2 million infections worldwide, with at least 1.45 million deaths reported, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. in the U.S.
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