Infection of newborn babies investigated
A hospital in Romania is under criminal investigation after 10 newborn babies tested positive for coronavirus.
The babies are believed to have been infected by the medical staff because their mothers tested negative for COVID-19.
Medical staff at the hospital had previously tested positive for the disease, Romanian media reports say.
Romania's Health Minister Nelu Tataru said all but one of the babies had gone into isolation at home with their mothers.
The case, in the western Romanian city of Timisoara, has highlighted the problem of infections at hospitals in the country.
On Wednesday, another hospital was placed under quarantine because of the large number of infected staff.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases jumped above 5,000 on Thursday in Romania, a rise of 441 in the past 24 hours.
More than 220 people with the virus have died in the country so far.
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