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A Singaporean woman, who was sick with COVID in March when she was pregnant, gave birth to a baby that has antibodies to the new coronavirus, writes Reuters. The discovery offers a new perspective on the question of whether the infection is transmitted from mother to fetus.
The baby was born in November and tested negative for COVID-19 but had antibodies to the virus, Reuters reported, citing the Straits Times, who spoke with 31-year-old Celine Ng-Chan.
“My doctor suspects that I passed antibodies to the fetus during pregnancy,” Celine Ng-Chan told the Straits Times.
She suffered a mild form of the disease and was released from the hospital after two and a half weeks.
The World Health Organization says it is not yet known whether a pregnant woman with COVID-19 can transmit the virus to the fetus or during childbirth.
So far, the virus has not been detected in the fluid in which the fetus is in the mother’s womb or in breast milk.
Doctors in China have reported the presence and then decline of COVID-19 antibodies in babies born to women with coronavirus, according to an article published in October in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Mother-to-newborn transmission of the coronavirus is rare, say doctors at the New York-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center in an article published in October in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
Editing: Bogdan Pacurar
