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In a shocking incident, a 3-day-old baby was tested positive for COVID-19 in a Mumbai hospital along with his mother.
The baby was born on March 26 at the Sai Hospital in Chembur and has tested positive for coronavirus, making him the youngest COVID-19 patient recorded in Maharashtra.
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According to the family, they had no travel history or contact with any COVID-19 patient and added that they did not step out of their home for 10 days before coming to the hospital.
They believe that the baby and the mother could have been infected through the bed that was allotted to them in the hospital.
The family alleged that just a few hours after the woman gave birth to her child the hospital authorities asked them to move to another room, without giving any particular reason.
The next day doctors asked the couple to get tested for COVID-19, and out of the three samples, the mother and baby tested positive.
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The father insisted that his wife had no symptoms of the virus before coming to the hospital.
The baby and his mother were shifted to Kurla Bhabha Hospital on Tuesday and were later again shifted to Kasturba Hospital the nodal centre for all coronavirus cases in Mumbai.
According to medical experts, the possibility of the mother being infected while she gave birth cannot be ruled out.
The previous occupant of the room and the hospital’s receptionist too tested positive for the virus. The hospital was since shut for sanitization.
As of Thursday morning, the total reported cases of coronavirus in Maharashtra to 335. 33 new coronavirus cases were reported in Maharashtra, on Thursday alone.
So far 42 people have recovered in the state and 13 have passed away from the infection.
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There is also a growing fear that the number of cases in the state could go up much higher after the second coronavirus case was reported from Mumbai’s Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum, in less than 24 hours.
Mumbai alone accounts for 181 COVID-19 positive cases and nine deaths in Maharashtra.
After two Dharavi residents tested positive for COVID-19 the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said that no one would be allowed to leave the building until tests of high-risk contacts were done.
With such a large population living in Dharavi, there is a fear that there could soon be community transmission of the virus.
The BMC has so far ruled out community transmission in Mumbai.
“There is no community transmission yet,” said Suresh Kakani, BMC additional municipal commissioner.
