COVID-19: Corona-infected becomes mother in Meghalaya

SHILLONG: A coronavirus-infected woman gave birth to a baby boy in Meghalaya, officials said.

Meghalaya Health and Family Welfare Minister AL Hek said that a COVID-19 positive woman, a returnee from Delhi, has given birth to a boy at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences.

Both the mother and the new-born are in good health, he added.

Re-testing of the sample of the woman would be done after 14 days quarantine in the hospital and the sample of the new-born would also be tested, the Minister said.

With the return of around four lakh natives to the northeast from other Indian States, the number of COVID-19 cases are rapidly rising in the region with total cases now 5,249, out of which 2,238 are active cases.

Among eight northeastern States, Assam has witnessed the highest surge in COVID-19 positive cases since inter-state movement of people began with around three lakh people returning to the state from western and south Indian states since May 4.

The other seven States also saw a spike. Tripura is second with 960 positive cases (678 active) followed by Manipur with 385 cases (312 active), 164 in Nagaland (134 active), 104 in Mizoram (103 active), 67 in Arunachal Pradesh (63 active), 44 in Meghalaya (21 active 21) and 27 in Sikkim (24 active). (IANS) 

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