17-day-old baby in China recovers from coronavirus without medication
Seventeen-day-old Xiao Xiao is the youngest person to have recovered from coronavirus.
(Web Desk) - A 17-day-old baby has recovered from the novel coronavirus after being born to a confirmed patient in Wuhan.
The newborn is the youngest patient to have recovered from the virus in China so far, reported state media.
She left the hospital on Friday after making a full recovery on her own without the help of medication.
According to Dr Zeng Lingkong, director of the Department of Neonatology at Wuhan Children’s Hospital, the baby had an infection in her respiratory system and minor myocardial damage when she was initially admitted.
But because her symptoms were not obvious, doctors decided not to give her antibiotic medication. Instead, they let her overcome the disease on her own.
Experts believe that baby may have contracted the virus in her mother’s womb; though it is also possible it caught the illness from having close contact with its mother after birth.
