British health authorities have urged more pregnant women to get coronavirus jabs after a national study found the Delta variant appeared to increase their risk of severe symptoms.
England’s top midwife on Friday urged pregnant women to get the jab as new data showed an increase in severe illness among pregnant women hospitalised with virus symptoms.
A paper-based on national data compiled by the UK Obstetric Surveillance System, published online on July 25, found that the proportion of pregnant women admitted to hospital with moderate to severe infection rose “significantly” after the Delta variant became dominant in May. “It is very concerning that admissions of pregnant women to the hospital with Covid-19 are increasing and that pregnant women appear to be more severely affected by the Delta variant of the disease,” said the study’s chief investigator Marian Knight, professor of maternal and child population health at the University of Oxford.None of more than 3,000 pregnant women admitted to hospital with virus symptoms since February was fully vaccinated, the study said.
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