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ICU baby infected with COVID-19 by ‘another parent’ – Byron Shire News
A baby is fighting for life at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital after contracting COVID-19 from the mother of another baby.
A cluster of new coronavirus cases has been linked to the neonatal intensive care unit at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital where a newborn baby is fighting for life.
Two parents and one healthcare worker at the hospital are also infected, Victoria’s Department of Health and Human Services says.
The newborn, believed to be just three weeks old, became infected when a parent of another baby entered the ward while carrying the infection. They were not believed to symptomatic at they visited….
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