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Owing to the increased likelihood of maternal virus aerosols and the potential need to administer newborn resuscitation to infants with COVID-19 infection, use airborne, droplet, and contact precautions when attending deliveries from women with COVID-19.
When the physical environment permits, separate newborns at birth from mothers with COVID-19. If the family chooses to have the infant in the mother’s room, they should be educated on the potential risk of COVID-19 development in the newborn.
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Source :Â Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. Of India
Controversial given the high risk of deaths, a coronavirus strategy discarded by the UK is being touted as the solution for young countries like India.
The herd immunity strategy, which would allow a majority of the population to gain resistance to the virus by becoming infected and then recovering, could result in less economic devastation and human suffering than restrictive lockdowns designed to stop the virus’s spread, a number of experts have begun to argue in the nation of 1.3 billion people.
“No country can afford a prolonged period of lockdowns, and least of all a country like India,” said Jayaprakash Muliyil, a prominent Indian epidemiologist. “You may be able to reach a point of herd immunity without infection really catching up with the elderly. And when the herd immunity reaches a sufficient number the outbreak will stop, and the elderly are also safe.”
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