Vizag: Two Covid-19 positive women deliver babies

VISAKHAPATNAM: In two separate cases, two

Covid-19-positive women

from

Vizianagaram

and East Godavari districts gave birth to

baby boys

on Saturday at government hospitals.

According to health officials, a woman from

Parvatipuram

in Vizianagaram district delivered a baby boy at the

Covid-19

hospital at Nellimarla in Vizianagaram district, while another woman from

East Godavari district

also delivered a baby boy at the government general hospital in

Kakinada

.

Speaking to STOI, Kakinada government hospital superintendent Dr

M Raghavendra Rao

said the woman was admitted to the hospital in an emergency situation on Friday. “Upon instructions from our collector, we set up an emergency system in our hospital and sucessfully operated on her,” Dr Raghavendra Rao said.

Dr Raghavendra Rao added that while the chances of transmission of the virus through blood is low as the disease is transmitted through the respiratory system, the baby and the mother are under pecial attention at the hospital, he added.

Vizianagaram collector M Hari Jawaharlal said the woman from Parvatipuram was admitted to the Covid-19 hospital where she delivered a baby boy on Saturday.


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