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Gujarat: 15-Day-Old Baby Girl Dies Of COVID-19 At Surat Hospital

Mumbai: A 15-day-old girl, whose mother was infected with COVID-19 while giving birth, succumbed to coronavirus at a hospital in Surat city, Gujarat.

According to a statement from Diamond Hospital, the infant was born with the infection on 1 April as her mother also contracted the disease. The child’s mother was sent to another hospital. However, the baby girl was under intensive treatment and was also administered remdesivir injection when her condition began deteriorating, said the statement.

The hospital said the newborn was on ventilator support and breathed his last on Thursday night.

It added that the former mayor of Surat, Dr Jagdish Patel, who had recently recovered from coronavirus, donated his blood plasma for the purpose of treating the infant.

On Thursday, Surat city recorded 1,551 new cases of coronavirus and 26 casualties.

With 8,152 new cases, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Gujarat stands at 3,75,768 while its death toll reached 5,076.

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