Previously healthy baby, less than two months old, dies of COVID-19 in Montreal hospital

A Montreal infant, previously healthy, has died of COVID-19 at one of the city's children's hospitals this week, the hospital said Friday.

The baby was less than two months old on Thursday when he or she died, Sainte-Justine Hospital said in a news release.

"The University Hospital regrets to announce the death within its walls of a baby under two months of age from COVID-19," a hospital spokesperson wrote.

"The child, healthy at birth, was recently hospitalized in intensive care due to COVID and died on December 16."

The hospital is providing no other details about the case and won't grant any interviews because of the need for confidentiality, it said.