Researchers from Italy announced that they found traces of corona in a number of umbilical cord blood and placenta samples, and in one case, breast milk, after they studied 31 women with Covid-19 who gave birth in March and April.
Claudio Venezia, head of the study, who specializes in immunology at the University of Milan, explained that it is not a cause for panic among women, and it is too early to issue instructions or change methods of care, "according to the" Arabiya "website.
The study included women from 3 hospitals during the height of the outbreak in northern Italy, and the genetic makeup of the virus was found in a blood sample from the umbilical cord and a sample of breast milk, and scientists also found specific antibodies to the virus in cord blood and in milk.
In one of the cases, Venezia said, "there is strong evidence to suggest that the infant was already infected because we found the virus in the blood of the umbilical cord and in the placenta." In another case, the infant had coronavirus, which was not transmitted to the placenta, so it could not have come from the mother and may have "come from the direct exposure of the virus to the fetus."