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Updated July 19th, 2020 at 05:00 IST

Peru premature newborn recovers from COVID-19

A premature baby born in Peru has managed to overcome COVID-19 and be reunited with his mother, the Peruvian Social Health System reported on Friday.

Peru premature newborn recovers from COVID-19
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A premature baby born in Peru has managed to overcome COVID-19 and be reunited with his mother, the Peruvian Social Health System reported on Friday.

The 27-year-old mother, Lissy Yaya Marquez, was finally able to see her newborn after 30 days of recovery in the isolated area of the neonatal intensive care unit in Lima's Edgardo Rebagliati Hospital.

"It has been a very difficult and complicated month, but we are still on the way, and soon we will win this battle," said the relieved mother while looking at her baby in an incubator.

Jorge, as her mother called him, is the smallest premature child with COVID-19 that the hospital had seen so far, said doctor Marilu Pachus.

As a result of severe pre-eclampsia and Hellp syndrome, the pregnancy had to be interrupted on the 23rd week.

And after a complicated emergency Caesarean section, little Jorge was born weighing only 542 grams.

The baby has since recovered from COVID-19.

(Representative Image)

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Published July 19th, 2020 at 05:00 IST

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