Newborn Girl Abandoned At A Public Toilet During Coronavirus Outbreak
A newborn girl has been dumped at a public bathroom in [/news/china/index.html China] during the [/news/coronavirus/index.html coronavirus] outbreak.
The baby, not even 10 days old, was found crying inside a toilet cubicle on Sunday in Sichuan Province, according to state media.
She was taken to a hospital to be quarantined.
Doctors have given her a coronavirus test and are expecting the result.
Footage trending on Chinese social media purports to show the girl crying while lying on the floor naked.
The newborn, less than 10 days old, was discovered inside a public toilet in China
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Police have recorded the child's DNA information and are looking for kynghidongduong.vn her parents.
The baby was discovered by a passer-by on Sunday night at a restroom in the city of Mianyang, reported [ ].
The onlooker, Mr Zhao, immediately alerted police and called for an ambulance.
One officer, known as Meng, said: 'The person who called the police claimed to hear a child's cries upon entering the public toilet before discovering the baby.'
Officer Meng said the baby was covered by a piece of blue-and-white cloth when they arrived.
Paramedics performed preliminary checks on the baby and found her to be largely healthy.
She was then taken to the Mianyang Central Hospital.
Paramedics performed preliminary checks on the baby and found her to be largely healthy
One police officer, known as Meng, told China News: 'The person who called the police claimed to hear a child's cries upon entering the public toilet before discovering the baby'
The baby was under round-the-clock care in the quarantine units in Mianyang Central Hospital
[ ]trending on Chinese social media purports to show the girl crying while lying on the floor naked.
One of the pictures released by [ ] shows paramedics examining the girl in the toilet.
Another image shows the baby lying in an incubator in Mianyang Central Hospital.
Dr Wang Xiaoshuang, tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn the chief physician at the department of neonatal care, said the baby had low body temperatures and sustained minor dehydration when she arrived.
The doctor suggested that the conditions could be caused by the fact that she had been deserted for a long time.
The baby was under round-the-clock care in the hospital's quarantine units.
A passenger has his temperature checked at Changsha railway station in Changsha today
The coronavirus has infected more than 80,700 people and killed at least 3,130 in China
Wuhan and the rest of Hubei have been on lockdown since late January in a bid to curb the epidemic.
Wuhan streets were still largely deserted on March 10 when Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived for his first visit to the city at the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic
Medical workers gave her an X-ray scan on the chest as well as a nucleic acid test to detect possible coronavirus infection.
The X-ray scan did not show any abnormality.
The result for the nucleic acid test was yet to come back.
Speaking to China News, officers from Mianyang Public Security Bureau urged the girl's parents to contact them as soon as possible.
Under Chinese criminal law, any parents who desert their children can be imprisoned for up to five years.
However, in reality, few of them are given punishment due to a lack of law enforcement.
