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Visiting parent may have infected already sick newborn baby with coronavirus in ICU

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A parent may have infected an already sick newborn baby with coronavirus while visiting another child in ICU, according to reports.

A three-week-old baby, as well as two parents and a healthcare worker in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne had tested positive on Monday.

Nine News reports a parent of a different child - who visited the ward but was not symptomatic at the time - is among those to have tested positive.

All other babies in the unit have so far tested negative. Victoria's Health Minister Jenny Mikakos confirmed while the hospital was waiting for the test results of one more baby, all others appear to not have contracted Covid-19. "We've had a very challenging set of circumstances in

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