Covid mothers face low risk of pregnancy complications

New York, Nov 20 : Researchers have now claimed that pregnant women, who test positive for Covid-19, their newborn babies have a low risk of developing severe symptoms.
The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, shows that 95 per cent of women who tested positive for Covid-19 during pregnancy had no adverse outcomes.
Additionally, the study found that the virus was transmitted to the fetus in just three per cent of the cases.
“Our findings are that approximately five percent of all delivered women with Covid-19 infection develop a severe or critical illness,” said study author Emily Adhikari from the UT Southwestern Medical Centre in the US.
“Most women with the asymptomatic or mild infection will be relieved to know that their babies are unlikely to be affected by the virus,” Adhikari added.
For the findings, the research team followed 3,374 mothers, 252 of whom tested positive for the virus during pregnancy, from March through August.