“It's a girl and she is fine, we all are fine,” said Rayhona, 23. “They have shown her to me on a smartphone.”

More than 150 babies have been born to mothers with suspected coronavirus infections at Moscow's City Clinical Hospital Number 15, and the hospital says not a single newborn caught the infection. But to achieve that, the babies are separated from their mothers at birth, breastfeeding is banned, and the mothers are kept quarantined in a ward for two weeks.

Until they are released from quarantine, mothers can communicate with their new babies only via video calls.

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