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Chinese baby tests positive for new coronavirus just 30 hours after birth

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/ap/02/05/20200205-ncov.jpg"/><figcaption>A medical staff member shows a test tube after taking samples from a person to be tested for the new coronavirus at a quarantine zone in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, in China&#x27;s central Hubei province. AP</figcaption></figure></div>BEIJING - A baby in China&#x27;s epidemic-hit Wuhan city has been diagnosed with the 2019 Novel Coronavirus just 30 hours after being born, Chinese state media reported Wednesday.The infant is the youngest person recorded as being infected by the virus, which has killed nearly 500 people since emerging late last year.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/02/05/20/china-virus-death-toll-rises-to-490-govt">China virus deaths rise to 490 as more countries confirm local transmission</a></li></ul>CCTV quoted experts as saying it may be a case of &quot;vertical transmission,&quot; referring to infections passed from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth or immediately after.The mother had tested positive for the virus before she gave birth.The official Xinhua news agency reported Monday that a baby born last week to an infected mother had tested negative.The disease is believed to have emerged in December in a Wuhan market that sold wild animals, and spread rapidly as people travelled for the Lunar New Year holiday in January.China&#x27;s national health commission said on Tuesday that the oldest person diagnosed with the virus is a 90-year-old and that 80 percent of reported deaths have been of patients 60 years of age and older.