After spending a month in an induced coma due to COVID-19, Dom, a 5-month-old Brazilian baby, gets to go home and celebrate his 6-month birthday.
A few months after he was born, Dom was diagnosed with Covid-19 at the Pro-Cardiaco hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
Dom's father, Wagner Andrade, told CNN the Dom spent 54 days in the hospital -- 32 of them in an induced coma and connected to a ventilator.
He says his on had some difficulty breathing so the doctors thought it was a bacterial infection but the medication didn't work and he got worse.
They then decided to take him to a second hospital and they tested him and he was confirmed to have COVID-19.
It remains uncertain how Dom contracted coronavirus.
According to Andrade, he may have been exposed during a visit to a relative's home.
Dom was hospitalized for nearly two months.
Dom will celebrate his 6-month birthday on June 14 at home with his parents, surrounded virtually by relatives.
Brazil has reported at least 25 COVID-19-related deaths among babies up to 12 months of age, according to data from the country's Ministry of Health.
In the last week, Latin America has become the epicentre of the global pandemic.
With 465,166 confirmed cases of the virus and 27,878 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data, Brazil is the hardest-hit country in the region.
[Source: CNN]
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