Pregnant Women and Infants Infected with SARS-COV-2: A Brief Overview

oleh: Omolbanin Delashoub, Salman Jafari, Mohammad Saleh Hajializadeh, Hamid Abdollahi, Reza Afzalipour

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences 2020-06-01

Deskripsi

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is now a global health concern and a wide range of people are at risk. Pregnant women are considered high-risk groups due to hormonal changes and weakness in the immune system. In the present study, the transmission of COVID-19 from mother to fetus and infection of children under the age of 10 with this virus were discussed. This study tries to investigate whether the coronavirus can be transmitted from a pregnant mother to her fetus and whether the virus can be transmitted to the baby through breast milk. According to researchers, children under the age of 10 do not get the disease; however, the first case of a baby with coronavirus was reported in Mashhad, Iran, based on the world’s up-to-date studies and the perceptions of medical experts.