A young Cape Town mother went into a panic on Wednesday when her nine-month-old daughter was diagnosed with coronavirus.
But the hospital has assured the 29-year-old woman, who doesn’t want to be identified, that there was nothing to worry about as her baby girl is not suffering from the deadly strain of the virus which is causing panic in the world- China in particular- where more than a 100 people have already died.
The mom says her baby had displayed flu-like symptoms on Monday and they took her to their local GP who referred them to Melomed Tokai for further testing. “I got the test results and it showed ‘Corona virus detected’ and this immediately made me think the worse because of everything we’ve seen in the media about the dangerous coronavirus from China,” she says.
According to the results of the sputum test, the Coronavirus NL63, as well as Human Rhinovirus and Influenza A were detected in the baby.
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