Babies at risk from pregnant women infected with Covid-19 — study

A pregnant woman and her newborn baby are transferred by a nurse on February 21, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei, China. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/WANG HE

Lead researcher Claudio Fenizia who presented the results of the study on Thursday‚ said though the results are preliminary‚ they did prove vertical transmission. “These two cases both have had positive placentas and the two babies were positive upon delivery. Overall through our study we believe that vertical transmission during pregnancy is possible‚” he said.

In another study that was presented at the conference‚ Andrew Hill of Liverpool University presented promising results from a study of two hepatitis C drugs‚ sofosbuvir and daclatasvir — an alternative treatment for patients with severe Covid-19. Of the 66 adult patients in four Iranian hospitals who the drug combination was administered to‚ most had a better clinical recovery within 14 days‚ resulting in shorter hospital stays.

The study also found that viral loads of Covid-19 virus in nasopharyngeal swabs were as high among those who were asymptomatic early on in infection as among symptomatic individuals. Researchers also established multiple strains of the virus in the same area‚ suggestive of multiple introductions of the virus over time.

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