Coronavirus Positive Wife Of AIIMS Doctor Delivers Healthy Baby In Delhi
Coronavirus: The resident doctor, who had also tested positive for the coronavirus, is associated with the physiology department of AIIMS.;
New Delhi: The wife of a senior resident doctor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, who was tested positive for coronavirus, gave birth on Friday night. This is the first baby to be born to a COVID-19 positive mother in Delhi. The mother and the child have been kept in the isolation ward.
The resident doctor, who had also tested positive for the coronavirus, is associated with the physiology department of AIIMS. He is admitted to the new private ward for further evaluation and multiple testing. The doctor, along with his wife and brother, tested positive earlier this week.
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Rigorous contact tracing is on after the AIIMS resident doctor said he attended a farewell ceremony at work. With this, eight doctors in Delhi have contracted the highly contagious virus.
On Wednesday, three doctors in Delhi had tested positive -- two of them were from the Safdarjung hospital, which is located just opposite AIIMS. The other doctor was from the Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Hospital.
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