Child with Covid-19 antibody born in Singapore

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While ten weeks pregnant, a 31-year-old Singaporean woman contracted Covid-19 in mild form. Despite this, in November, cured of this disease, she gave birth to a healthy son. Also, according to The Straits Times, doctors have detected antibodies against him.

Doctors found antibodies to the novel coronavirus in a newborn baby at a Singapore hospital, The Straits Times reported on Nov.29.

According to her information, the 31-year-old mother tested positive for the coronavirus when she was ten weeks pregnant. Her illness was mild and two and a half weeks after she was hospitalized, the woman returned home.

In November, she gave birth to a son, who did not test positive for Covid-19 but had antibodies against it, the newspaper said.

“I transferred my Covid-19 antibodies to him”

“It’s very interesting. Her pediatrician said my Covid-19 antibodies were gone but Aldrin [le nouveau-né en question, ndlr] has antibodies against Covid-19. My doctor suspects that I transferred my antibodies to Covid-19 to him during pregnancy, “she says every day.

The Straits Times notes that this may not be the first of its kind in Singapore, as a baby was born on April 26 to a woman who contracted the novel coronavirus at 36 weeks of pregnancy in March. It is he, according to the newspaper, who could be the first child born with antibodies against Covid-19.