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Hong Kong Separating Parents from Infants over Coronavirus

BY GABRIELLE REYES

 

Authorities in charge of a public Hong Kong hospital separated an 11-month-old baby from her mother this week after the mother admitted her infant daughter to the facility for an unknown illness and the baby subsequently tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Wednesday.

Hong Kong permanent resident Laura, who was born in the U.K., told AFP on February 22 she admitted her daughter Ava, 11 months, to an undisclosed Hong Kong public hospital on the evening of February 20 for symptoms including a fever and labored breathing. Ava tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus after she was admitted to the medical facility Sunday night, prompting hospital staff to transfer the infant to an intensive care unit (ICU) without her mother or father.

“Ava is now stable in the intensive care unit and will soon be moved to an isolation ward but she will have to recover without her parents for at least seven days,” according to AFP.

Laura tearfully recounted on Tuesday how she begged the hospital’s staff to allow her to accompany her daughter to the ICU, but to no avail.

 

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