A baby was born with the coronavirus in Russia's Caucasus region, health officials were quoted by TASS news agency as saying on Sunday, to a mother who is also infected.

The birth in the North Ossetia city of Beslan follows one in mid-April in Peru, which health officials there said was the second known case of a COVID-19 positive newborn worldwide.

In North Ossetia, "a pregnant woman was infected by the coronavirus, and her baby was born infected", a regional health ministry spokesman was quoted by the state agency TASS as saying.