Baby tests positive for China virus just 30 hours after birth February 05, 2020 at 03:44AM

The infant is the youngest person recorded as being infected by the virus, which has killed nearly 500 people since emerging late last year. The mother had tested positive for the virus before she gave birth. The disease is believed to have emerged in December in a Wuhan market that sold wild animals, and spread rapidly as people travelled for the Lunar New Year holiday in January