Youngest infant diagnosed with COVID-19, 'condition is severe'

INA – Baghdad
 
Ministry of Health and Environment announced upon detecting of a severe case of COVID-19 for a youngest infant in Iraq, in a precedent that the country has not witnessed before.
 
"The ministry has proven to have recorded an infection with the COVID-19 virus for the youngest infected person, a girl no more than 12 days old,” said the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Saif Al-Badr, to the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
 
He explained that this case is a precedent, as the Ministry has not previously detected any cases of this age, noting that "the girl is currently in the special care, receives the required health care and follow-up by doctors specializing in pediatrics and respiratory diseases,"
 
"The girl is currently living with a severe infection with the virus and her parents are also infected with the virus," he added.
 
Al-Badr called on citizens to “adhere to the rules of prevention in terms of wearing masks, social distancing, receiving vaccinations, and the need to adhere to homes and not go out except when necessary as well as, to preserve their lives and the lives of their children and the elderly,”