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COVID-19 can infect pregnant woman's placenta, finds ICMR Study

Studying a database of RNA sequences of human placenta, an eight-member team said there is a strong likelihood that the coronavirus infection can be passed on to the foetus because the placental cells possess the same receptors that the Sars-CoV-2 virus uses to attach itself in throat and lungs cells of Covid-19 patients.

In Maharashtra, more than 15,000 pregnant women contracted Covid-19, of which newborn babies were diagnosed with COVID in less than 1% of the cases.