UAE resident who tested positive for COVID-19 twice gives birth to healthy twins

UAE resident who tested positive for COVID-19 twice gives birth to healthy twins

A Filipino resident in the United Arab Emirates who tested positive for COVID-19 twice – once during pregnancy and once during labor – has given birth to healthy twin girls.

Mariecen Nituma Agillon, 26, first tested positive for COVID-19 at 31 weeks pregnantafter reporting symptoms of fever, cough, and shortness of breath.

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After her health deteriorated, she was admitted to the isolation ward in NMC Specialty Hospital, Al Nahda, Dubai on June 4, 2021.

Her husband, Kenneth Zamora, who worked as an office assistant before losing his job to the pandemic, had also tested positive around the same time, and was admitted into a quarantine center in Dubai.

Blood tests on the mom-to-be revealed she has high levels of infection and inflammation, while a chest x-ray revealed she had developed pneumonia.

Dr Rakesh Sankar, a specialist physician, at the hospital said: “Pregnancy can lead to complications in COVID-19, and in this case, more so since this was a pre-term twin pregnancy.”

“In addition to COVID-19 related pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome, other complications during treatment such as severe anemia requiring blood transfusion, bacterial pneumonia with sepsis, and high heart rate suggestive of thyroid condition were encountered.”

After spending two