DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2022.v10i09.008

Pages: 889-892

The new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, responsible for acute respiratory distress syndrome, was able to infect children, especially newborns. In this article, we report the case of two twins born to a mother who was infected with COVID-19 two days before her cesarean operation for retroplacental hematoma. In both cases, these were 32-week premature newborns who had respiratory distress in the first hour of life and whose PCR tests performed after 24 hours were negative but turned positive on the 12th day. After applying resuscitation measures associated with antibiotic therapy, corticosteroid therapy, immunoglobin and vasodilators, the evolution was marked by a clinical improvement for one case and death on the 20th day of life for the other. According to the study of these cases, it is probable that this is a neonatal infection with COVID-19 by vertical transmission.