Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
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We present a case of a 30-week pregnant woman with the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) delivering a healthy infant with no evidence of COVID-19.
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In December 2019, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in China and now has spread in many countries. Pregnant women are a population susceptible to COVID-19 and are more likely to have complications and even progress to severe illness. We report a case of neonatal COVID-19 in China with pharyngeal swabs testing positive by real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction assay 36 hours after birth. However, whether the case is a vertical transmission from mother to child remains to be confirmed.