Proposal for prevention and control of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease in newborn infants

• Published in: Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition Vol. 105; no. 6; pp. 683 - 684
• Main Authors: Li, Fang, Feng, Zhi Chun, Shi, Yuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.11.2020; BMJ Publishing Group
• Series: Letter
• Subjects: Betacoronavirus; Body Temperature; Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Delivery Rooms - standards; Disease transmission; Epidemics; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Infant, Premature; Infants; Medical supplies; Mothers; Newborn babies; Nucleic acids; Pandemics - prevention & control; Patients; Personal Protective Equipment; Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control; PostScript; Protective equipment; Quarantine; Respiration; Respiratory tract; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome; China; neonatology; infectious diseases
• ISSN: 1359-2998; 1468-2052; 1468-2052
• DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2020-318996

Correspondence to Professor Yuan Shi, Department of Neonatology, Chongqing Medical University Affiliated Children's Hospital, Chongqing 400014, China; shiyuan@hospital.cqmu.edu.cn ; Professor Zhi Chun Feng; zhichunfeng81@163.com Since the end of 2019, an outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)1 has fast spread widely. The delivery room or operating room serving suspected or confirmed infected mothers should be specially prepared, preferably with negative pressure.3 Medical staff involved must be equipped with required protective equipment. Diagnosis of neonatal COVID-19 could be confirmed if the suspected patients have positive nucleic acid test for COVID-19 from the respiratory tract, stool or blood specimens.4 Infants with highly suspected or confirmed COVID-19 should be referred to the designated neonatal ward.