coronavirus is said to have provided the "strongest evidence yet" that it can be caught inside the womb. The unnamed girl's mum tested positive for coronavirus the day after giving birth having suffered breathing problems and a fever and when scientists analysed her placenta, they found inflammation and traces of coronavirus.Researchers say that this strongly suggests the baby caught Covid-19 while in the womb rather than after she had been born.
Medics have been left struggling to establish whether several babies born with the virus were infected during birth, or contracted the virus in the womb since the outbreak of the deadly disease first began.