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Three-day-old baby dies in Wales after mother is infected with new coronavirus – Observer

A three-day-old baby died in a hospital in Wales after the mother tested positive for the new coronavirus. Coolio Morgan will be the youngest registered victim related to Covid-19 in the UK and news of his death comes a week ago after a six-week-old baby died in England, probably from this disease.

Coolio was born at Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, and was later transferred to Singleton Hospital in Swansea, where he died on May 5. The mother, who lives in Maesteg, in the south of Wales, was diagnosed with the new coronavirus shortly after delivery. It is not known if the baby had any health problems.

It remains unclear how Covid-19 is transmitted to newborns. Marian Knight, from the University of Oxford, explained to The Guardian newspaper that there are two hypotheses on the table: “Either the virus is transmitted to babies when they are still in the womb, and we have no evidence to suggest that this can happen, or the mother has an infection at the time of delivery and this is passed through direct contact, ”said the researcher, who published together with some colleagues from Oxford a study that analyzes the data of 427 pregnant women admitted to British hospitals with the new coronavirus.

Wales has so far recorded 1,154 deaths from the virus. There are 11,706 people infected, according to The Guardian. The number of cases in the UK amounts to 229,705, with 33,186 fatalities by Covid-19.

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