Ten-month-old baby tests positive for COVID-19

March 27, 2020 20:22

A 10-month-old baby from a village in Dakshina Kannada district has tested positive for COVID-19, health officials said.

The baby was admitted to a private hospital at Derlakatte in Mangaluru on March 23 with high fever and acute respiratory illness.

The throat swab was sent to the lab for testing the nextmday and it tested positive, a release from district healthmofficer Ramachandra Bayari said here on Friday.

The baby is now in stable condition, it said

Sajipanadu village in Bantwal taluk has been quarantined as a precautionary measure and no one is allowed to enter or go out of the village.

-- PTI

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