Infants born to mothers with COVID-19 appear to be healthy with no clinical evidence of the disease, according to a case series from Wuhan, China.

Writing in Frontiers in Pediatrics, Dr Liu Yalan and colleagues from Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, describe the clinical course of four full-term infants born to pregnant women with COVID-19 infection during the third trimester.

Three infants were born by caesarean section because of concerns about symptomatic maternal infection; the fourth was born by vaginal delivery.

All were isolated from their mothers immediately after birth. All had one-minute Apgar scores of 7-8 and five-minute Apgar scores of 8-9.