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Two twins were born prematurely last Sunday in Viana do Castelo, infected with covid-19. The 38-year-old mother was hospitalized before birth for threatened displacement of the placenta, was finally tested and tested positive for the new coronavirus.
The babies were born prematurely and, when tested for SARS CoV-2, also resulted in positive cases of infection, according to the TVI, advance the news. The unusual situation led the Alto Minho Local Health Unit (ULSAM), responsible for the hospital unit, to contact the Ricardo Jorge National Institute, which has already collected a sample of the placenta to find out how this transmission could have occurred. The twins shared the same placenta.
“After delivery, all babies are examined. Until now, what has always happened is that everyone is negative. To our surprise, these twins gave a positive result ”, said the head of Neonatology.
“We all have the idea that in the thousands of pregnancies in the world there is very little transmission from mother to child. There is an attempt, worldwide, to investigate this matter ”, he emphasized.
Despite being positive for more than a week and even before the babies were born, the mother only began to show symptoms compatible with the pandemic disease last Friday, so she is hospitalized, like the twins for being born prematurely. .
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