JUST IN— 40 YEAR OLD COVID-19 PATIENT DELIVER A BABY GIRL

A 40 year old COVID-19 patient give birth to a baby girl at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital Idi-Araba.

The delivery was said to have taken place on Monday afternoon, the hospital management Tweeted.


“ A team of LUTH doctors , anesthetists , and nurses delivered a woman with COVID -19 of a baby girl this afternoon . The 40 - year -old mother gave birth to a 3 .3 kg baby . Our gratitude goes to these gallant men and women and all warriors making the nation proud in the face of this scourge, 

” the hospital tweeted .
The Chairman Medical Advisory Committee of the hospital, Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo , told our correspondent that the newborn was doing well but her sample would be taken for a test soon.

“ The chance of the baby being COVID - 19 is unlikely but we have to take her sample for testing, but she is doing well . The baby is going to be with her mother in a separate ward and room in our isolation centre ,”