Published Monday, April 27, 2020 

By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

On Saturday night, a woman infected with covid-19 gives birth to a healthy baby girl, according to Social Security authorities.

The 30-year-old infected woman gave birth on Saturday at 8:14 p.m. to a girl at the San Juan de Dios Hospital.

Immediately the medical examination was carried out on the newborn to verify if she presented the covid-19 virus, which resulted in negative.

This is the first case of a baby born to a woman infected with the virus in the country.

"The woman, 38 weeks pregnant, and who originally had a cesarean section scheduled for Tuesday, had to be admitted to the hospital this Saturday and had a successful operation," said Mario Ruiz-Cubillo, medical manager for Social Security.

After the cesarean procedure, the mother and daughter are in joint accommodation, where they are kept in isolation from other patients. It is expected that today, the mother and daughter will be able to leave the hospital and continue with the isolation quarantine at home.

According to specialists, the mother must carry out a series of security measures, so as not to infect her daughter. She should maintain a distance from her daughter for two weeks, the recommended quarantine measure. She will only have physical contact when breastfeeding, and during that short time she must wear a face mask. She should also put some type of plastic protector between herself and the baby. The mother should maintain constant hand washing and wearing the face mask 24/7.

It is expected that in two weeks the mother may have overcome the illness and continue a normal regimen with her daughter.


The virus continues infecting people in the country, but with fewer new cases per day than last month.

On Sunday, the Ministry of Health confirmed an increase of 2 new patients infected with the virus, increasing the total to 695 cases.

Authorities provided the following statistics:

- The patients' ages range from 1 to 87 with an average age of 37. Of those, 34 are children under the age of 13, 625 are between 18 and 70 years old, and 36 are elder patients over the age of 70.

- 16 are being treated in public hospitals, where 8 of them have been reported in intensive care with delicate health conditions. The rest of the infected patients are in quarantine at their homes.

- Of those infected, 334 are women (48%) and 361 are men (52%).

-133 patients are employees of Social Security.

- 67 foreigners infected.

- 264 coronavirus patients have fully recovered, of these 126 women and 138 men.

- 8,249 people have been ruled out since the virus was first reported in the country in March.

- Six deaths reported from patients infected with covid-19.

The most recent death was reported on April 20. A 54-year-old Cuban man was diagnosed with the coronavirus on March 6. According to the authorities, he was linked to 81 people infected with covid-19.

On April 19, a 69-year-old Costa Rican diagnosed with the coronavirus on March 25 died.

On April 15, an 84-year-old Costa Rican man who had tested positive for covid-19 on April 1 was reported dead.

On April 8, a 45-year-old Costa Rican died after being hospitalized for 10 days in intensive care of the San Juan de Dios Hospital.

The first two patients died in March. They were hospitalized in intensive care at San Rafael Hospital in Alajuela Province, both 87-years-old.



The UNED University provides a daily updated number of patients infected in each district throughout the country at its  Covid-19 Map.

As of Sunday night, the pandemic has killed 206,402 patients worldwide according to recent statistics reported by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.



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