The premature baby of only 580 grams who defeated the Covid-19 returns home

• Jorgito from Peru, the Peruvian premature baby who overcame Covid-19

Time to go home for

.

The premature Peruvian who managed to overcome the coronavirus with only seven months of age has been

this Thursday at the Edgardo Rebagliati Hospital in Lima.

There he has spent five months in a continuous fight against the disease and its consequences, after being born as the baby with the lowest weight on record, weighing just 580 grams.

Last July we learned more about its history.

The media broke the news that he had successfully beaten Covid-19 after a month in an incubator in the neonatology intensive care unit.

His weight had increased by

since the last time, and everything was going so well that he was able to meet again in the hospital with his mother.

She, a 27-year-old woman, also overcame the coronavirus.

The forecasts, according to the mother,

.

Jorgito still needed assisted breathing after the feat.

She was born on June 15 with less than six months of gestation as a result of severe pre-eclampsia and Hellp syndrome that forced the termination of her mother's pregnancy.

"It is the smallest baby born to a mother with a positive diagnosis for coronavirus and

that our unit has received," confirmed doctor Marilú Pachas, from the Neonatal ICU Service of the Lima hospital.

"His lungs are recovering," said the specialist after the last molecular tests performed on the baby were negative for coronavirus.

In accordance with the hospital's biosafety protocols, the parents have been receiving reports on the child's progress three times a week.

Now, however, no more face-to-face visits will be scheduled or video calls required.

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