Singaporean mother gives birth to baby with COVID-19 antibodies

A lady who was pregnant when contaminated with COVID has reportedly given her youngster antibodies in opposition to the virus.

A Singaporean lady who was pregnant when she was contaminated with coronavirus in March has reportedly given start to a child with antibodies in opposition to the illness, providing a brand new clue as as to whether the an infection could be transferred from mom to youngster.

The child, who was was born this month, doesn’t have COVID-19 however has the virus antibodies, the Straits Occasions newspaper reported on Sunday, citing the mom.

“My physician suspects I’ve transferred my COVID-19 antibodies to him throughout my being pregnant,” Celine Ng-Chan instructed the paper.

Ng-Chan had been mildly sick from the illness and was discharged from hospital after two and a half weeks, it stated.

Ng-Chan and the Nationwide College Hospital, the place she gave start, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Uncommon transmission

The World Well being Group says it’s not but identified whether or not a pregnant lady with COVID-19 can move the virus to her fetus or child throughout being pregnant or supply.

Thus far, the lively virus has not been present in samples of fluid round infants within the womb or in breast milk.

Medical doctors in China have reported the detection and decline over time of COVID-19 antibodies in infants born to girls with coronavirus, in accordance with an article printed in October within the journal Rising Infectious Ailments.

Transmission of the coronavirus from moms to newborns is uncommon, docs from New York-Presbyterian/Columbia College Irving Medical Heart reported in October in JAMA Pediatrics.

Whereas Singapore has recorded simply barely greater than 58,000 COVID infections, there are over 62.2 million infections all over the world immediately, with a minimum of 1.45 million reported deaths, in accordance with knowledge collected by Johns Hopkins College in the US.