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NEW DELHI: A 45-day-old baby infected with COVID-19 died at Delhi’s Kalawati Saran Children’s hospital. The child became India’s youngest COVID-19 victim.

Hospital sources said another 10-month-old child tested positive is also admitted here. Three days ago, a senior resident doctor was found positive for the virus.

Later, when persons who had come in his contact were tested, one more doctor, three nurses and a few other staff members tested positive for the disease.

As these doctors and nurses were involved in the care of children admitted in the hospital, sources said, the children were tested too.

Two children admitted in the hospital tested positive, of which one died on Saturday. The other one is stable,” said a senior doctor, who did not want to be identified.