Baby saved as mum is lost to Covid-19


Life’s fragile: Neeson cradling Baby David after he was discharged from the hospital. — The Phnom Penh Post/ANN

Newborn baby Neth David has had a rough start in the world. His mother Vong Daneth was seven months pregnant when she contracted a severe case of Covid-19.

When it became clear to her doctors that she would not survive, they performed a caesarean section to save her baby.

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