Report : A woman from Singapore who had Covid gave birth to a baby with antibodies

 The Straits Times reported on Sunday, citing the mother, that the baby was born this month without COVID-19 but with antibodies to the virus.

SINGAPORE: A Singaporean woman, who was infected with the new Coronavirus in March when she was pregnant, gave birth to a baby carrying antibodies to the virus, which provided a new idea of ​​whether the infection can be transmitted from mother to child.

On Sunday, the Straits Times newspaper, citing the mother, reported that the baby was born this month without Covid-19 but with antibodies to the virus.

"My doctor suspects that I passed the antibodies to COVID-19 to him during pregnancy," Celine Ng Chan told the newspaper.

The Straits Times said Ng Chan had a mild illness and was discharged after two and a half weeks.

Ng-chan and the National University Hospital, where she was born, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The World Health Organization says it is not yet known whether a pregnant woman infected with COVID-19 can transmit the virus to her fetus or fetus during pregnancy or childbirth.

To date, the active virus has not been found in fluid samples around a baby in the womb or in breast milk.

Doctors in China have reported detection and decline in antibodies to COVID-19 over time in babies born to women with the coronavirus disease, according to an article published in October in the Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Doctors from New York-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center reported in October at JAMA Paediatrics that transmission of the new coronavirus from mothers to newborns is rare.