The baby's mother was reportedly brought into hospital days before giving birth and both were later found to have COVID-19.
North Middlesex University Hospital said two patients had tested positive forAccording to a report in The Sun, the two are a baby and the baby's mother.The hospital added:"One has been transferred to a specialist centre and one is being treated in an isolation room.
"The safety of our patients and staff is our top priority, so in following guidance from Public Health England, we are regularly deep cleaning the areas where the patients are cared for and staff who were in close contact with these patients were advised to self-isolate."The mother had been taken to hospital in London days before the baby's birth with suspected pneumonia and doctors said her positive result was only known after the baby was born, the Sun reported.
Doctors are trying to establish whether the baby was infected during the birth or whether it caught the virus in the womb, the newspaper added.
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