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Video calls connect mothers and newborns separated by coronavirus in Colombia

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In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, visits to newborns hospitalised in a neo-natal unit are forbidden in an effort to protect the vulnerable babies from possible infection. But family members of newborns in the unit at Kennedy Hospital in Colombia are speaking to their babies via hundreds of video calls organised by staff.
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