A pregnant woman with COVID-19 in Central America

Dear Editor, Over the last three months, the pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused significant concern in the world due to its rapid spreading [1,2]. Since February 25, 2020, it has also comprised the Latin America and the Caribbean region [3]. [...]given the patient's travel history and fever, a nasopharyngeal aspirate sample was collected and tested following WHO guidelines for real-time RT-PCR at the National Virology Laboratory of Tegucigalpa, following the protocol Charité, Berlin, Germany [5]. According to previous reports for SARS in pregnancy in Hong Kong, SARS-CoV infection could be associated with poor pregnancy outcomes, including critical maternal illness, spontaneous abortion, or maternal death, preterm birth [6,7].