10 newborn babies have contracted coronavirus from infected medical staff at a hospital in the western Romanian city of Timisoara.
Authorities are now investigating the hospital after the newborns tested positive for coronavirus.
According to Health Minister Nelu Tataru, all babies except for one are in isolation with their parents at home.
“The mothers tested negative, but the babies tested positive so we have to consider their contacts with medical staff,” he told Antena 3 TV station.
One of the mothers said to local pressalert.ro website: “For the past 2 days I have felt like I am living in a horror film. The staff were not wearing masks,” adding she had heard that there was a case of coronavirus in the facility.
“On Thursday the hospital was disinfected with us inside,” she shared.
This comes after another Romanian hospital was forced into quarantine because of a large number of medical staff with COVID-19.
As of April 13, there are 6,300 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Romania with 318 deaths. The latest case fuels worries about how the country’s system is tackling the pandemic.
In the UK, a 12-week-old baby was rushed to hospital with a high fever and difficulty breathing. The child became one of the youngest COVID-19 cases in the country.
In the US, a 1-day-old baby girl passed way after her mother got infected and went into premature labor.
The baby girl became the youngest victim in Louisiana after her mother was put on a ventilator, according to officials.
“The baby, because of the extreme prematurity did not survive,” said Money East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Beau Clark in a daily briefing. “Likely she would have not gone into preterm labor and there would have been a different outcome. This is an incredibly sad case.”
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