French doctors have reported the first confirmed case of contamination, intra-uterine to the Covid-19, in a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
The new-born, a male, was born in march and was suffering from neurological symptoms associated with the disease. “We have shown that the transmission from the mother to the fetus via the placenta in the last weeks of pregnancy “, told AFP the doctor, Daniele De Luca, of the hôpital Antoine Beclere in Clamart, lead author of the study.
