COVID 19: Four month old tested positive, the youngest to be tested positive in Kerala

A four-month-old kid from Payyanad close Manjeri in tested positive for COVID 19 on Wednesday. The child was admitted to the Kozhikode Government Medical College Hospital (GMCH). The baby is accepted to be the most young patient of COVID pandemic in Kerala. The Malappuram locale clinical official K Sakeena said a subtleties study will be directed to discover how the infant was infected by the virus.

As per the health office, the child had been taking treatment for coronary illness and undergrowth from the Kozhikode GMCH for a quarter of a year prior to testing positive for Covid 19. The child was admitted to a private medical clinic in Payyanad for breathing trouble on April 17. In spite of the fact that the specialists proposed the guardians to take the kid at Kozhikode GMCH, they conceded the youngster to another private medical clinic in the area.

From April 17 to April 21, the kid was under treatment for fever and breathing trouble at another private emergency clinic in Payyanad. On the off chance that the youngster was admitted to the Kozhikode GMCH, the Covid affirmation would have done two or three days back, master specialists said.

Following the kid created seizures and different challenges, the child was at long last admitted to the Kozhikode GMCH on April 21. Around the same time, samples of the child was taken and tested for Covid 19. The example tested positive on Wednesday and infant is right now under treatment at the emergency unit the Kozhikode GMCH.

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