Anshu Banerjee, a senior advisor in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at WHO, said only "fragments" of the virus had been detected in breast milk, not live virus. "So far we have not been able to detect live virus in breast milk, so the risk of transmission from mother to child has not been established,” he said. However, experts say little is known about SARS-CoV-2 in breast milk and more studies and researches are needed. Mothers who are too sick to breastfeed their babies are advised to pump breast milk and feed the infants from clean bottles. “We detected SARS-CoV-2 RNA in milk samples from the second mother for four consecutive days.

Source: Daily Nation June 16, 2020 04:22 UTC