Ten Newborns Contract Coronavirus at Hospital
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The mothers of the babies tested
negative, while the babies tested positive, fuelling suspicion that the status of
the babies may have resorted in their contacts with medical staff, Health
Minister Nelu Tataru said in an interview with the Antena 3 TV station late on
Monday.
According to AFP’s report,
the babies have no symptoms and all but one of them, together with their
mothers, have gone into self-isolation at home.
Tataru pointed to the failures
in the activities of both maternity officials and the local public health
directorate (DSP) and promised severe measures if necessary. The local DSP
chief has already been dismissed as a consequence.
The unit in the western
Romanian city of Timisoara was briefly placed under quarantine on March 31 but
was reopened the next day on the orders of the local DSP, which insisted at the
time that there was no risk of infection for patients or doctor” even though 13
members of staff had already tested positive.
The latest case adds to
worries about how Romania’s system is coping with the epidemic.
Medical staff have spoken
out in recent weeks over insufficient equipment for those on the frontline. There
are more than 4,400 confirmed cases in Romania so far and 180 people have died.
Around 700 of those infected are healthcare workers.
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