KATHMANDU: A 20-year-old woman, who had tested positive for COVID-19, gave birth to a baby at the Dharan-based BP Koirala Institutes of Health Sciences (BPKIHS, on Monday.

The baby was delivered at the hospital's Covid-19 special unit.

According to the hospital's spokesperson Dr Nidesh Sapkota, both the mother and baby are in normal condition.

A team of health workers led by Dr Surya Prasad Rimal had carried out the procedure.