In Chuvashia, doctors rescued a three-month-old baby from COVID-19 and lung damage baby from COVID-19 and 100% lung damage, according to the website of the Ministry of Health of the Republic.
For three weeks, doctors fought for the life of a little patient. The child was constantly receiving high-flow oxygen, his condition was assessed as extremely serious.
The chief physician of the hospital, a freelance specialist in infectious diseases in children of the Ministry of Health of Chuvashia Natalia Malova noted that newborns are at special risk.
< p> “It is necessary that all adult family members get vaccinated against COVID-19 in a timely manner, since children cannot be vaccinated due to their age,” she said.
Earlier in Komi, doctors of the republican infectious diseases hospital cured a baby with COVID-19, who was four days old at the time of infection.
The chief doctor of the hospital, Vladimir Katkov, said that the baby contracted a coronavirus infection from the mother. At the same time, doctors diagnosed the child with lung damage in 25 percent. The baby was in the hospital for 16 days, now he is completely healthy.