The warning comes as experts determine whether there is a link between Covid Placentitis and the stillbirths. Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn said that these provisional reports should be interpreted with caution as they have not been finalised.
Dr Glynn said: I would say to women it doesn’t mean you have to do anything different than you have been doing, if women have specific concerns, they should talk to their GP.”
He continued: We know from international data, this is a very rare condition. We wouldn t expect to see high incidences in this country. These findings are preliminary.
The director of the HSE s National Women and Infants Health Programme has said the evidence suggests that the outcome for pregnant women who get Covid-19 is by and large very reassuring .
However, he said that the international experience generally suggests there has been no increase in stillbirths since the pandemic began.
Dr McKenna said up until the early part of the year, there had been around 400 pregnant women who contracted Covid-19 in Ireland, but there are estimates that this figure has since more than doubled. I would estimate reasonably we ve had about 1,000 pregnant women who have had Covid. That s very much a guesstimate, but it s probably not an unreasonable one, he said.
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