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Medical staff work at the COVID-19 isolation ward of Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba on September 9, 2020. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)
An Israeli hospital said on Saturday that a fetus stillborn from a woman infected with the coronavirus was also found to be carrying the virus. It was the second such reported instance in Israel.
The hospital said it could not currently link the virus to the death itself.
The woman, infected with COVID-19, was in the 36th week of her pregnancy when she arrived at the hospital over the weekend after feeling ill, Hebrew media reports said.
Meir Medical Center doctors found the unborn child had died in the womb, and a subsequent lab test revealed that the fetus was also infected with the virus.
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And for Gombe State, it was 1 in 10 persons.
“Survey findings released today revealed that the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies was 23% in Lagos and Enugu States, 19% in Nasarawa State, and 9% in Gombe State,” NCDC and NIMR said in a statement.
“This means that as many as 1 in 5 individuals in Lagos, Enugu and Nasarawa State would have ever been infected with SARS-CoV-2. In Gombe, the proportion is about 1 in 10.”
Lagos State is the epicenter of the virus in Nigeria and has the highest burden of the virus in the country – official statistics show that the state has recorded 55, 122 confirmed cases and 403 deaths from the virus as of February 24.
There were 12 new COVID-19 cases reported in Union County Tuesday by the Arkansas Department of Health, bringing the cumulative total of cases identified locally to 3,625. The cases in the county Tuesday included 2,801 confirmed cases, up seven from Monday, and 824 probable cases, up five from Monday.