Newborn triplets in Mexico have tested positive for coronavirus in an “unprecedented” case.
Mexico’s novel coronavirus cases mounted and added their youngest infections Monday, when triplets tested positive for the virus on the day they were born.
Medical experts are investigating whether the disease could have been passed on through the mother’s placenta during pregnancy.
However Two of the babies, one boy and one girl, are in a stable condition in a hospital in San Luis Potosí state.
Monica Rangel, the health secretary of the northern state of San Luis Potosi, said the triplets were born May 8 to a mother who was also positive but asymptomatic.
Rangel said the triplets are not believed to be in danger. She said the case was being studied to see whether the triplets were infected before or after birth was being conducted, but said it appeared improbable they could have been infected outside the womb so quickly.
The parents of the triplet are currently being tested, with authorities saying they may have been asymptomatic.
Mexico has recorded more than 185,000 coronavirus cases and 22,584 deaths since the country’s first case on 28 February.
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