Successful Treatment of a Critical ill Newborn with COVID-19 Pneumonia after Cesarean Section |Biomedgrid

We report about a 5 day old newborn with critically pneumonia SARS-CoV-2 after cesarean section infected by a family cluster infection. A male newborn was admitted 22 days after delivery due to “intermittent fever for 17 days”. That means that on the fifth day after delivery, due to Cesarean section, the newborn began to fever. In short, history of pregnancy and delivery modus was G1P1, 22 days ago (31 Jan 2020). The newborn was delivered in 38 + 5 weeks gestation by c-section. Amniotic fluid, umbilical cord and placenta was normal, APGAR score at 1, 5 and 10 minutes normal. 18 days ago (04 Feb 2020) the child developed fever with a peak of 38.0 ℃. The child showed choking cough, had no running nose, no vomiting, no diarrhoea, any convulsions or skin rashes.