{"id":15421,"date":"2020-05-21T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T06:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=15421"},"modified":"2020-05-21T09:46:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T06:46:50","slug":"two-day-old-baby-dies-from-covid-19-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/21\/two-day-old-baby-dies-from-covid-19-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-day-old Baby Dies From COVID-19 in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A two-day-old baby born became the youngest victim of coronavirus in South Africa after being born prematurely to a coronavirus positive mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the country&#8217;s first neonatal death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said the premature baby had lung problems and required ventilation immediately after birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe mother had tested positive for Covid-19 and the child subsequently tested positive for Covid-19 as well. It is important to appreciate the complexities of the underlying condition of prematurity,\u201d he said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Africa, which has the highest coronavirus infections in Africa, reported 27 new deaths bringing the total fatalities to 339.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some 803 new coronavirus cases were announced on Wednesday evening taking the total to 18,003 while 8,950 people have recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-day-old baby born became the youngest victim of coronavirus in South Africa after being born prematurely to a coronavirus positive mother. It is the country&#8217;s first neonatal death. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said the premature baby had lung problems and required ventilation immediately after birth. \u201cThe mother had tested positive for Covid-19 and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":15422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15423,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15421\/revisions\/15423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}