{"id":139858,"date":"2020-04-01T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=139858"},"modified":"2020-04-02T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T16:23:02","slug":"babies-do-catch-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/01\/babies-do-catch-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies DO catch Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Baby-shoes-Clipart-e1585844569121.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139955\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Health Minister Rafael S\u00e1nchez C\u00e1rdenas confirmed in the press briefing on 31 March 2020 that a six-month old baby died of coronavirus in the Dominican Republic on Saturday, 28 March 2020. . The baby died at the Robert Reid Cabral Children\u2019s Hospital. Diario Libre reports the baby was from San Pedro de Macoris. It is not clear in which bulletin the death was included. The minister had been asked the question before in the daily press briefing but had not provided confirmation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported, there is only one other case of a baby catching the virus, that of a baby in Chicago, Illinois. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/salud\/confirman-muerte-de-nino-de-seis-meses-por-coronavirus-en-el-robert-reid-cabral-KI18015395\">Diario Libre<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2020\/03\/31\/611175\/se-confirma-muerte-de-bebe-de-seis-meses-por-coronavirus-en-el-pais\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/muerte-de-bebe-por-coronavirus-en-republica-dominicana-es-la-segunda-en-el-mundo\/\">Hoy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 April 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health Minister Rafael S\u00e1nchez C\u00e1rdenas confirmed in the press briefing on 31 March 2020 that a six-month old baby died of coronavirus in the Dominican Republic on Saturday, 28 March 2020. . The baby died at the Robert Reid Cabral Children\u2019s Hospital. Diario Libre reports the baby was from San Pedro de Macoris. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/01\/babies-do-catch-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139956,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139858\/revisions\/139956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}