A 40-DAY-old baby has died from Coronavirus after he was picked up and cuddled by neighbours celebrating the new arrival.
The baby tested positive for Covid-19 when he was just 28-days-old after he was taken to a regional hospital in the Indonesian province of East Java.
After nearly two weeks of treatment, the infant tragically died.
Local coronavirus task force chief Syaiful Hidayat said that contract tracing pointed towards the baby having contracted the virus from neighbours who visited him after he was born.
Hidayat said that many of the neighbours had held the baby boy during their visits.
The tot is said to have begun showing symptoms of the virus including coughing, a fever and breathing problems, after the visits.
His parents have tested negative for the virus.
Sigit Priyono, a member of the Covid-19 task force, said that they had found people with symptoms of the virus and others who had tested positive had failed to self-isolate in the area where the baby lived.
The tot has since been buried under strict coronavirus protocols.
According to the latest figures from the Johns Hopkins University, Indonesia has suffered 47,896 cases of COVID-19 with 2,535 related deaths.
Deaths in infants from Coronavirus are very rare but the UK has recorded a small number of tragic cases following the start of the pandemic in March.
Last week a baby, who is not thought to have any underlying health conditions, died at Sheffield Children’s Hospital after contracting the virus.
The 13-day-old infant is one of the UK’s youngest victims since the start of the pandemic.
Culled from: Sun UK
