Baby tests positive for China virus just 30 hours after birth

NSTworld: A baby in China’s epidemic-hit Wuhan city has been diagnosed with the novelcoronavirus just 30 hours after being born. coronavirus

The infant is the youngest person recorded as being infected by the virus, which has killed nearly 500 people since emerging late last year.

CCTV quoted experts as saying it may be a case of “vertical transmission“, referring to infections passed from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth or immediately after.The official Xinhua news agency reported Monday that a baby born last week to an infected mother had tested negative. The disease is believed to have emerged in December in a Wuhan market that sold wild animals, and spread rapidly as people travelled for the Lunar New Year holiday in January.

China’s national health commission said on Tuesday that the oldest person diagnosed with the virus is a 90-year-old, and that 80 percent of reported deaths have been of patients 60 years of age and older.--AFP

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