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Covid-19 pregnancy news reports

May 17, 2020

Primary newspaper sources

In roughly reverse order. Updated regularly. Click here for ripe-tomato.org’s Covid-19 in pregnancy navigation page. From 14 January “Vaccine in pregnancy news reports” included. For access to those US sites which are blocked in the EU, not many, I use https://www.proxfree.com/ 

Reports referring to primary scientific sources, and reports using only semi-quatitative adjectives, e.g. “some”, “many”, “surge in” cases, excluded.

Note – numbering error 319 to 520. The total number of reports are 200 fewer than the latest number would imply.

4 April

1294. Tamara Grieve from South Gippsland, Australia, contracted Covid late in pregnancy (click here). She gave birth and has recovered. Report 1 April

1293. Rachael Fogarty, 29, from Liverpool, contracted covid and gave birth by C-section on 27 November (click here). Mother and baby recovered. Report 4 April

1292. Charma Jonathas, 35, from Port St. Lucie in Florida, contracted Covid and gave birth on Aug. 19 at Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital in Stuart (click here). She required ECMO at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center and recovered. She had not been vaccinated, and has continued to decline vaccination. Report 30 March

1291. Courtney Seddon, 28, tested positive and gave birth by Caesarean at Auckland City Hospital on 25 March (click here). Report 30 March

1290. Sarah Marechaux, from Fintona, Northern Ireland, contracted Covid in October 2021 (click here). She gave birth via C-section on October 23, 2021, at the South West Acute Hospital, Enniskillen. She was seriously ill but recovered, and was finally discharged home in January 2022. Report 28 March

19 March

1289. 30% of women giving birth in Middlemore hospital, Aukland, New Zealand between February 28 and March 8 were infected (click here). For Aukland district overall the figure was 20% (click here). Report 17 March

18 March

1288. Rowena Salas contracted Covid in November 2021 and gave birth prematurely at Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada (click here). Shortly after,birth she was transferred to Sunrise Hospital for ECMO. She recovered and went home on March 3rd, 2022. The baby also recovered. Report 15 March

1287. Betsy Bloch contracted Covid on Christmas Day 2020 and was delivered by Caesarean at about seven months gestation, at UnityPoint-Meriter Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, early in 2021 (click here). Post natally her condition deteriorated, due to a fungal lung infection, blastomycosis, and she was transferred to University of Wisconsin Health Hospital for ECMO. She eventually recovered and went home in March 2021. The baby recovered. Report 14 March

1286. Mona Rehman, 41, from Sheffield, contracted Covid in January 2021, at 28 weeks, and gave birth at 29 weeks by Caesarean (click here). She required 4 days ventilation, and her baby a prolonged stay in NICU. Both recovered. Report 14 March

11 March

1285. Arkansas reality TV personality, Jill Duggar, tested positive during her pregnancy (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 10 March

8 March

1284. Ana Perez-Arietta, 33, from New Brunswick contracted Covid and gave birth at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia soon after (click here). She died two months later in February. Report 7 March

1283. Queensland Senator, Nita Green, from Cairns, Australia, got vaccinated while pregnant and gave birth on 1st March (click here). Report 3 March Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1282. Min, 31, who only gave her surname, from Yangju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea tested positive two days before her Cesarean delivery at Gachon University Gil Medical Center (click here). Another unnamed woman in her 30’s gave birth on the way to hospital on Feb. 15, while being nursed at-home for COVID-19 when labor began unexpectedly. Report 8 March

1281. Reality star, Lateysha Grace, 29, tested positive for covid, developed pre-eclampsia, and was delivered at 34 weeks (click here). Report 5 March

1280. Harry Potter star, Jessica Cave, 34, has contracted Covid while pregnant and been admitted to hospital (click here). She is in the third trimester and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 6 March

4 March

1279. 214,000 babies have been born to Covid infected mothers in the Indian state of Telangana since March 2020 (click here). The source is given only as “officials”. Report 2 December

1278. Reality TV star, Jinger Duggar, contracted covid post-natally in December 2020 (click here). She now has long Covid. Report 2 December

23 February

1277. Danakelly Taylor, 24, contracted covid and gave birth 31 weeks and four days by caesarean on August 4, 2021 at Royal United Hospital in Bath, UK (click here). She recovered but her baby died. Report 22 February

1276. Rekha Ramesh from Bengaluru contracted covid at 24 weeks (click here). She gave birth by Caesarean at 24 weeks at Aster CMI hospital. The baby weighed 500g. Both mother and baby recovered. Report 23 February

1275. McKenzie McCombs, 26, from Utah, contracted severe Covid at 28 weeks (click here). She required delivery by caesarean and prolonged ventilation. Both her and the baby survived. Report 22 February

19 February – NR 1237 updated

1274. 34 pregnant women have died from Covid in Namibia (click here). Report 16 February

1273. Erin Zanza got vaccinated at 37 weeks and gave birth normally (click here). Report 14 February Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1272. Tracey Leonard contracted Covid in mid December 2021, and gave birth on 30 December at 24 weeks (click here). Mother and baby survived. Report 15 February

1271. Macenzee Keller contracted Covid in November and gave birth by Caesarean on 28 November at Catholic Medical Center, Manchester, New Hampshire (click here). Her condition deteriorated and she was transferred for ECMO at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Two month later she recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Her baby is fine. Report 18 February

12 February

1270. Kelly Stanfield, 36, from Cypress, Texas, contracted covid and gave birth at 27 weeks by Caesarean (click here). She was severely ill, but her and the baby both recovered. Report 23 September 2021

11 February

1269. Courtney Thomas, 38, contracted covid and gave birth to her first child at Medical City McKinney, Texas, at 36 weeks in early October 2021 (click here). She spent a month on a ventilator but recovered. Her baby is fine. Report 10 February

1268. Tp date 10,591 nursing mothers, and 2,476 pregnant women, have been vaccinated in Almaty, Kazakhstan (click here). Report 11 February. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1267. Ali Hair got vaccinated while pregnant and gave birth normally (click here). Report 11 February Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1266. Stephanie Baker, 31, of Shallotte, North Carolina, contracted Covid and delivered twins by Caesarean on January 27. She died on Jan 30 (click here). She was unvaccinated. One twin was stillborn. The other survived. Report 10 February

1265. Rhian Thompson got vaccinated while pregnant (click here). She gave birth normally in October 2021. Report 11 February Vaccine in pregnancy news report

7 February

1264. An unnamed woman with severe Covid was delivered at University of Louisville Hospital in October 2021 at 24 weeks (click here). The mother was treated with ECMO. She had not been vaccinated. Report 6 February.

1263. Over the whole pandemic 1,800 women with covid have given birth at Ghandi Hospital in Hyderabad (click here). 700 by Caesarean. There are currently 35 Covid-19 infected pregnant women in the hospital. Report 7 February

1262. Nicole Fahey, Kate Yohay, and Caroline Fiore all got got vaccinated while pregnant (click here). Report 7 February Vaccine in pregnancy news report

6 February

1261. One unnamed woman with Covid, at Derriford hospital, Plymouth, was told her baby had died (click here). Four other pregnant women in the same hospital have required intensive care during the pandemic. None died. Report 2 February.

1260. Agnieszka T, contracted covid in December 2021 while pregnant with twins and the fetuses died shortly afterwards. She died on Jan. 25 at a hospital in Czestochowa, allegedly due to medical failure to do an abortion (click here). Report 31 January

1259. Linsey Taylor, from Topeka, Kansas, tested positive at 28 weeks, shortly before discovering her baby had died in-utero (click here). Report 3 February

1258. An unnamed woman with Covid gave birth at 30 weeks at the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal (click here). Her condition deteriorated and she is now on ECMO at McGill University Health Centre – Montréal. She had not been vaccinated. Her baby is in PICU at Montreal Children’s Hospital. Report 30 January

1257. Samantha Reyna, 21, contracted mild Covid at term and gave birth at DHR Health Women’s Hospital in McAllen, Texas (click here). Her baby was isolated from her. She was unvaccinated. Report 2 February

1256. Paige Dempsey, 46, contracted Covid in Feb 2021, early in pregnancy (click here). She recovered, later got vaccinated, and gave birth normally at term. Libby McDowell, 36, also contracted Covid during pregnancy in July 2021. She recovered and delivered twins in December at Omaha’s Methodist Women’s Hospital. In the same report two unnamed women died of COVID while pregnant in Nebraska. Report 4 February

1255. Jenny Gooch, 31, from Moore county, North Carolina, contracted Covid in Spring 2020, at 23 weeks and went into preterm labour (click here). She recovered, but her baby died aged one month. Report 3 February

2 February

1254. Diana Crouch, 28, contracted covid in August 2021 (click here). At 18 weeks gestation she was transferred to Texas Children’s Hospital, and placed on ECMO. At some point she suffered strokes, a heart attack and seizures.  She gave birth via caesarian section at 31 weeks. She went home on December 28, 139 days following her admission. She had not been vaccinated. The baby survived. Report 2 February

1 February – update for NR 1145

1253. Jess Eva, 37, the host of Sydney radio show, Triple M, contracted Covid while early in pregnancy towards the end of 2021, and miscarried soon after (click here). Report 31 January

31 January

1252. From 1 to 20 January, 261 pregnant women contracted the virus in the Tokyo metropolitan area, about a 50-fold increase on the previous month (click here). On 28 January the San-Ikukai Hospital in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, was caring for nine pregnant patients infected with the coronavirus. At Chiba University Hospital in Chiba City, two beds reserved for pregnant women with the coronavirus have been occupied most of the time since the middle of January. There were no infected pregnant women in the prefecture from October to December. As of Jan. 20, however, the prefecture had registered about 50 such individuals, many of whom were recuperating at home. Report 30 January

1251. Leah Moyer, 25, from Mayfield, contracted covid and gave birth by Caesarean (click here). Post natally her condition deteriroated and she required ECMO at Baptist Health Paducah, in West Kentucky. Her baby tested negative. Both recovered. Report 30 January

1250. Italian Reality star, Alessia Macari, 26, tested positive and gave birth the following day (click here). She had been vaccinated. The baby tested negative. Both recovered. Report 30 January

28 January – report 1235 updated.

1249. The FIASO survey conducted in 12 sentinel hospitals (incl. Asst Civilian hospitals of Brescia, Irccs San Martino Polyclinic Hospital of Genoa, Irccs Aou of Bologna, Tor Vergata Polyclinic, San Giuseppe Moscati Hospital of Avellino and Bari Polyclinic) included a number of pregnant women with Covid (click here for January 5 or here for the week 18 to 25 January). [Note – I cannot find a link to the primary report] Reports 12 and 28 January

1248. Cheyenne Lewis, from Tyndall Airforce base in Florida, gave birth normally in August 2021, but contracted covid three days later while in hospital (click here). She recovered and the baby was not infected. Report 26 January

1247. Kristen Miranda, 29, contracted severe Covid on 1 Jan and gave birth at Southern Hills Hospital, Las Vegas, on 5 Jan, at 31 weeks (click here). Both mother and baby survived. Report 22 January

1246. Hollie Bourne, 23, from Folstone, Kent, contracted Covid at term and gave birth at home on 23 July (click here). Her baby was stillborn. Report 26 January

1245. Yide contracted covid and gave birth on 28 January. Her baby died the next day (link here not working on my proxy).

1244. Nikki Paterson, from Dalgety Bay, Scotland, contracted covid during pregnancy, recovered, and gave birth normally at 38 weeks (click here). Report 24 January

1243. Kara Bennett tested positive shortly before giving birth to twins by Caesarean at Spectrum Health, West Michigan (click here). In the same report Theresa Sayles tested positive and gave birth normally. Both mothers and all three babies survived. Report 26 January

1242. Nimalla Lalamma, from Banala in Balmoor mandal, gave birth normally outside the Government Area Hospital, Achampet, near Hyderabad having been refused admisssion because she had tested positive (click here). Report 26 January

1241. Ariel Romero gave birth on 25 December 2021 at Medical City McKinney, Dallas, Texas, after 93 days in hospital including a month on a ventilator with covid (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Her baby weighed 5 pounds 9 ounces. Both are recovering. Report 25 January

1240. Cara Jamieson, a Scottish breastfeeding specialist, got vaccinated while pregnant and her booster while breastfeeding (click here). Report 27 Janurary Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1239. Michaela Dailey from Kentucky contracted COVID-19 in late August at 33 weeks gestation (click here). She was delivered by Caesarean. and require ECMO at Hardin Memorial hospital. She had not been vaccinated. Mother and baby recovered. Report 26 January

1238. Billie Cowie, 25, tested positive shortly after giving birth by Caesarean due to pre-eclampsia, at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (click here). Mother and baby recovered. Report 28 January

27 January

1237. Alexandra Chandler contracted Covid on 6 January and gave birth by Caesarean soon after (click here). Her condition later deteriorated and she required ventilation. The baby tested positive but is recovering. Report 24 January. Note – the People article implies that the information from the GoFundMe page had not been verified. Update 28 January – click here for corroborated mainstream media story. Further update 19 February – Alexandra Chandler died on 12 February (click here). She was from Fort Hood, Texas. Report 15 February

1236. Michaela Jones tested positive and gave birth by forceps at term at Frankston Hospital, Melbourne, Australia (click here). Her baby tested negative. Report 26 January

23 January

1235. An unnamed woman from Dharmabad in Maharashtra, India, tested positive and gave birth normally in Bhainsa Government Area Hospital (click here). Mother and baby are doing fine. Report 23 January. 28 January update – This English language report names her as Laxmibai (click here). Report 23 January

1234. Two unnamed pregnant women with covid are being treated at Milton Cato Memorial Hospital in Kingstown, St Vincent & the Grenadines (click here). Report 22 January

1233. An unnamed 26-year-old woman with Covid gave birth by Caesarean at 30 weeks in Malaga, Spain, and died soon after (click here). She had not been vaccinated. The baby survived. Report 22 January

1232. Two unnamed women tested positive and gave birth normally in Huzurabad Area Hospital in Karimnagar district, India (click here). Report 22 January

1231. An unnamed pregnant woman contracted covid at 16 weeks and miscarried at Brampton Civic Hospital, in Mississauga, Canada (click here). Report 22 January

1230. Thirteen unnamed pregnant women tested positive in Lucknow, India recently (click here). Report 23 January

1229. Mother of 11, and TikTok star, Veronica Merritt, is due to give birth to her 12th child in April. She contracted covid in December and the pregnancy is ongoing (click here). Report 22 January

1228. Barnes Jewish Hospital in St Louis, Missouri is seeing 37% of pregnant women testing positive during the omicron phase. Only 20% tested positive during the delta phase (click here). Report 21 January

22 January

1227. Jodi Long from Des Moines, Iowa, tested positive at 15 weeks. Her symptoms were mild, she recovered, and the pregnancy is ongoing (click here). She had been vaccinated. Report 21 January

21 January – News report 9 updated

1226. In Trinidad, 58 unnamed pregnant women contracted covid in 2020, 1,101 in 2021, and 22 so far in 2022 (click here). Six unnamed mothers died, one in 2022. In the same report a new-born baby who died as a result of prematurity was a case of mother to child transmission, and as of January 17, 1,084 pregnant women had been vaccinated. Report 19 January

1225. Helen Skelton, the host of Channel 5’s This Week on the Farm, contracted Covid a few days before Christmas and gave birth normally on 28 December, at Leeds General Infirmary (click here). Mother and baby are doing fine. Report 18 January

1224. Kelly Mitchell from Milwaukee, got her booster vaccine in October early in her pregnancy (click here). She is now 4 months gestation and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 20 January. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1223. Caitlin Mulligan, 22, contracted Covid, and gave birth at 32 weeks Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife (click here). She recovered but her baby spent 72 days in NICU. Report 20 January

1222. Jo Udeze, 39, contracted Covid at 30 weeks (click here). She gave birth by Caesarean in August at Walsall Manor Hopital and spent two weeks in induced coma in ITU. She and the baby recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 20 January

1221. Erem Ali, 29, contracted covid at 31 weeks pregnant. She was delivered by c-section on 2nd February 2021 at Royal Surrey County hospital, Guilford (click here). Her condition deteriorated and she was transferred to St Thomas’ Hospital, Westminster, London. Following many complications she is now home. She had not been vaccinated. Her baby survived. Report 21 January

1220. Crystal Hernandez, 27, contracted covid on 1 Jan at 24 weeks and was delivered by Caesarean on 6 Jan at 25 weeks (click here). She died soon afterwards. Her baby remain in NICU. She had not been vaccinated. Report 20 January

1219. Michelle Stani, 37, died on January 12 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick (click here). She had given birth three weeks earlier. Report 19 January

1218. Sheena Berry, 37, contracted Covid in the 2nd trimester in late August 2021. She spent 2 month on ECMO and 4.5 months in the ICU at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta (click here). She survived and gave birth to a healthy baby on 14 Jan at 37 weeks. She had not been vaccinated. The same newspaper reports that 15 unnamed pregnant women with Covid have been treated with ECMO at this hospital. One unnamed mother died but all babies survived. Report 18 January

17 January

1217. Alessandra Peluso contracted Covid late in 2021 (click here). She gave birth to premature twins at Santobono Hospital in Naples. She later died. The babies survived. She had not been vaccinated. Report 17 January

1216. Tyarna Hansen, from Ceduna in South Australia, contracted Covid at four months gestation (click here). She is staying in an Adelaide hotel, and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 17 January

1215. Duangdee Inthachack, 20, a farmer at Nabor Village, Yommalath District, Khammouane Province, Laos, was vaccinated in the seventh month of her pregnancy on 24 November 2021 (click here). In the same report Bo Kaly, 28, got vaccinated in her eighth month of pregnancy on 26 November 2021. Report 17 January Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1214. Rachel, 38, from Bilston in Wolverhampton, contracted Covid while pregnant, was in a coma and in hospital for three and a half months, and gave birth to a stillborn son at 24 weeks in August 2021 (click here). She was cared for at New Cross hospital in Wolverhampton and at Glenfield hospital in Leicester, the regional ECMO unit. She had not been vaccinated. Report 15 January

12 January

1213. An unnamed woman tested positive and was photographed shortly after giving birth in McAllen, Texas (click here). Report 23 December

1212. On one day in December 2021, at the peak of the 4th wave, 13 unnamed women gave birth and tested positive in one unnamed Netcare hospital in South Africa (click here). They were all presumed to have the Omicron variant and all were asymptomatic. Report 7 January

7 January

1211. Eleven unnamed pregnant women with covid are inpatients in one unnamed materity hospital Gothenberg, Sweden (click here). Report 7 January

1210. An unnamed woman in South Korea contracted Covid on December 23, gave birth on December 28 at 32 weeks, and died on 4 January (click here). She had not been vaccinated. The baby tested negative and is not displaying symptoms. Report 7 January

5 Jan 2022

1209. Jemimah Steinfeld contracted Covid and gave birth at 31 weeks in December 2020 (click here). Mother and baby survived. Report 22 November

4 Jan 2022

1208. 6,947 pregnant or postpartum women have contracted Covid in Cuba since the start of the pandemic (click here). Report 3 January

1207. The wife of Pranjal Patowary from Assam, contracted Covid in April 2021, at 12 weeks gestation (click here). The pregnancy continued and she gave birth later in 2021 to a healthy baby. Report 4 January

1206. Annmaree Freeman from Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, tested positive on 30 December at 31 weeks gestation (click here). Her pregnancy is ongoing. Report 4 January

1205. Holly Eckler, from Wichita, contracted Covid at 25 weeks (click here). She required ventilation and transfer to the University of Kansas Health System, but recovered with kidney damage and an ongoing problem with her voice. She had not been vaccinated prior to contracting Covid, but her experience persuaded her to do so. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 3 January Vaccine in pregnancy news reports

1204. Halie Mulanax, 16, contracted severe Covid on 29 November, required ventilation, and gave birth in Amarillo, by Caesarean at 29 weeks, on 9 December (click here). She remains on a ventilator at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.. She had not been vaccinated. The baby is fine. Report 4 January

1203. Lareesia Wright, 30, from Arizona, died on 25 December, from complications of Covid, four months after giving birth on 27 August at 35 weeks (click here). She had contracted Covid while pregnant and been in a coma ever since. She had not been vaccinated. Report 3 January

1202. Fitness influencer, Tammy Hembrow, 27, contracted mild Covid on 31 December, at 18 weeks gestation (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 4 January

3 Jan 2022

1201. Two unnamed pregnant women are currently in ITU, but not ventilated, in Queensland Australia (click here). One had not been vaccinated. Report 2 January

1200. Valerie Scalf contracted Covid in the second trimester, recovered, and gave birth at Reid Health Ohio, on 1 January (click here). Report 2 January

1199. An unnamed pregnant woman in Israel has contracted both Covid and influenza and gave birth at the Rabin Medical Centre (click here). Her symptoms were mild. She had not been vaccinated. Report 3 January.

1198. Lakeisha Peterson, tested positive for Covid, and gave birth to twins at 26 weeks at Vidant Medical Center, North Carolina on 1 Jan 2022 (click here). Report 2 January

1197. Maham Irfan, 29, from Dubai, contracted severe covid in July, requiring prolonged ventilation, and gave birth at 27 weeks by Caesarean, at Al Zahra hospital (click here). Mother and baby recovered. Report 3 January

1196. Jessica Powell, 34, from Portsmouth, UK, contracted Covid two weeks ago, recovered, and gave birth normally to a healthy baby on 1 Jan 2022 (click here). Report 2 January

31 December

1195. Emily Robinson contracted Covid and gave birth by Caesarean, nearly two months early (click here). She died a month later at Mercy Hospital, Fort Smith, Arkansas, on 20 Sept. Her baby survived. Report 30 December

1194. Yvonne Khoo, 37, contracted severe Covid on 26 October at 25 weeks (click here). She required six days ECMO at Singapore General Hospital. The pregnancy continued, but after stopping the ECMO she got contractions and the baby was delivered by caesarean on 4 November at 27 weeks. Mother and baby recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 31 December

1193. 2003 Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus tested positive on December 30 (click here). Her pregnancy is ongoing. She is due early in the new year. She had been double vaccinated. Report 31 December

29 December – NR 1086 updated.

1192. Montoya Binion, from Alabama, contracted covid and gave birth by Caesarean (click here). She required 16 days ventilation after the birth. Both mother and baby recovered. Report 29 December

1191. Ashley-Marie Carroll contracted Covid in November 2020, at 26 weeks, while in Stoke Mandeville hospital after a car crash (click here). At 28 weeks she developed HELLP syndrome and she was delivered on December 19, 2020. Both mother and baby recovered. Report 25 December

1190. Natalie Forshaw, 30, contracted Covid, and gave birth at Manchester Royal Infirmary on November 3 (click here). She died on 26 December. She had not been vaccinated. Her baby survived. Report 28 December

24 December

1189. Seven unnamed pregnant women tested positive at Lalla Ded hospital in Kashmir (click here). Six are being manged at home, and one was admitted. Report 23 December

1188. Natalie Nielson, from Tullabody, Scotland, contracted Covid at 28 weeks, and gave birth on October 22 (click here). Mother and baby survived. Report 23 December

1187. Tanviha Quraishi-Akhtar contracted covid at 33 weeks gestation in January 2021 (click here). She gave birth by Caesarean at Blackburn Hospital on 9 February, and later ECMO at Wythenshaw hospital. She and the baby recovered. Report 24 December

23 December

1186. On 22 December one unnamed pregnant woman with Covid was about to give birth in Samson Assuta Ashdod Hospital, in Israel (click here). Report 22 December

1185. Bobbie Ann Sison, a nurse at Singing River Health System’s Pascagoula hospital, had an undiagnosed illness in pregnancy, was not tested for Covid, and gave birth on March 3, 2020 (click here). Her baby died of Covid the same day. Report 22 December

22 December

1184. Queshonda Kudaisi, 29, of Winter Haven, Florida, contracted Covid at about 6 months gestation on Aug. 15. She recovered and gave birth on the 8th December (click here). She had not been vaccinated prior to the infection. She received her first vaccination in November. Report 17 December

1183. Kaitlin Moore, from Indianapolis, contracted Covid in September & gave birth at Riley Hospital for Children at 32 weeks (click here). She required 19 days ventilation. She and the baby recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 20 December

1182. Jessica Walker, from Monroe, Georgia, contracted Covid on September 12th at 36 weeks (click here). She was delivered by Caesarean and required 39 days ventilation. She and the baby recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 20 December

1181. Renee Crutcher, from Detroit, contracted Covid while pregnant, and shortly after giving birth was placed on a ventilator (click here). She died in September after months of treatment. Her baby survived. Report 19 December

1180. Kelli, 26, from Rockford, Illinois, contracted COVID-19, and shortly after giving birth required 21 days on a ventilator (click here). She and the baby recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 15 December. 16 Dec update: “The mother reported in this story has disputed the statements made by Brittany Moorman in the interview.”

1179. Jena Davies, 42, contracted Covid and gave birth shortly before term by Caesarean at Dumphries Infirmary on 5 January 2021 (click here). Mother and baby recovered. Report 21 December

1178. Charma Jonathas from Palm Beach Gardens Florida contracted severe Covivid & gave birth in August (click here). She spent months on ECMO in Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, but she & the baby recovered. Her vaccine status was not reported. Report 21 December

1177. Samantha Montgomery, 31, from Colchester, contracted Covid & gave birth via Caesarean at 27 weeks gestation (click here). She required intensive care, but she & the baby recovered. She had had the first dose of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine in February, before she was pregnant, but not the second. Report 22 December

1176. Chelsie King, 27, from Weston-super-Mare, UK, contracted severe Covid in July 2021, and gave birth via Caesarean, at St Michael’s hospital in Bristol, at six months gestation (click here). She underwent ECMO at St Thomas’s Hospital in London. She and the baby recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 22 December

1175. Nicole Bendickson, 30, from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, died on 1 December, twelve days after giving birth to twins (click here). Her husband and her twins had tested positive for COVID-19. It is not clear if she also had Covid. Report 20 December

15 December

1174. Gina Mcguinness, 37, from Hartlepool, UK, contracted Covid at 16 weeks gestation and gave birth normally at term (click here). Report 15 December

14 December

1173. Breann Barber, from Two Harbors, Minnesota, contracted COVID-19 on Nov. 22 and gave birth on Dec 4th at 34 weeks (click here). She and the baby recovered. Report 13 December.

1172. Laura Ward, 33, gave birth by Caesarean at 31 weeks, following which she required 35 days ECMO the Royal Bolton Hospital and later rehabilitation at Wythenshawe Hospital (click here). She and the baby recovered. Report 14 December

11 December – News Report 9 updated.

1171. Krystal Binette, 39, from Fort St. John, British Columbia, contracted Covid at 25 weeks, required treatment with ECMO at the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, and was delivered by Caesarean on Oct 23rd (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Both her and the baby recovered. Report 7 December

1170. Heather Clark, from Derby, Kansas, died from Covid on 5 December (click here). She had given birth to twins by caesarean late in November Report 8 December

1169. Aimee “Jaqueline” Ayala, 22, from El Paso, Texas, died from Covid on 30 November having given birth by Caesarean at eight months gestation on 13 November (click here). The baby survived. Report 10 December

1168. Sarah Mays, from Loveland, Colorado, got severe Covid, was treated with ECMO and gave birth by Caesarean on August 18, at 29 weeks (click here). Both her and the baby recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 10 December

6 December

1167. 995 pregnant, and 3,513 nursing women, have had the Pfizer vaccine in Almaty, Kazakhstan (click here). Report 6 December

1166. Dezi Scopesi, 23, from Utah, contracted Covid in October, when her son was one year old (click here). She died on 2 December. She had delayed vaccination because she was breastfeeding. Report 6 December

1165. Four pregnant women have died from Covid in Tinidad & Tobago (click here). Up to 3 December 1,002 pregnant women had contracted the disease. Report 6 December

1164. Stephanie Sholl, from Columbus, Ohio, got vaccinated while pregnant (click here). She then contracted mild covid at 37 weeks in the same pregnancy. She recovered and gave birth normally at term. Report 6 December

1163. Paige Bliss, 25, from Birmingham, UK, contracted Covid and gave birth by C-section in August, at 27 weeks (click here). She required two days ventialtion but recovered. Her vaccine status was not reported. The baby also survived. Report 6 December

1162. Since 19 November, 65 pregnant women and 554 nursing mothers, have received the Comirnaty vaccine in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan (click here). Report 6 December.Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1161. An unnamed women in her early 30s, with Covid, died during a caesarean section at 32 weeks on December 18th, 2020, at an unnamed hospital in the Kent area (click here). Report 5 December.

1160. Five women with COVID-19 gave birth in September and October 2021, at the National University Hospital, Singapore (click here). In all of 2020, the same hospital cared for only eight pregnant women with COVID-19 at any stage of pregnancy. All delivered healthy babies. In the same report KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital cared for 91 pregnant women with Covid from May to October 2021. Report 6 December

5 December

1159. Sarah Heyl, from Sacramento, California, contracted Covid, and gave birth by Caesarean, four months ago, at 36 weeks (click here). She, and the baby, survived. She had not been vaccinated. Report 2 December

1158. Adrienne Chandler, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, contracted Covid two weeks ago, and died shortly after giving birth to her fourth child (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Report 3 December

1157. Tori O’Rourke, 25, from Kinvara in Co Galway, was pregnant with twins when she contracted Covid at 24 weeks (click here). She gave birth in Malaga, Spain, 3 months ago. Both her and the twins survived. Report 5 December

1156. Tanviha, Christina and Joanne all contracted covid while pregnant (click here). They were all seriously ill, Tanviha required ECMO, but all survived. They all three required Caesarean and their babies also survived. None of them had been vaccinated. Report 4 December

30 November

1155. Jana Pittman, 39, doctor and Olympic athlete, got vaccinated while 18 weeks pregnant with twins (click here). Report 30 November Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1154. Jamieleigh Carne, from Middlesbrough, UK, contracted Covid at 14 weeks (click here). She recovered, and is now 32 weeks gestation. Report 29 November.

1153. 933 pregnant women have been vaccinated in Trinidad & Tobago (click here). Report 29 November Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1152. 282 pregnant women had contracted Covid in Trinidad & Tobago, by August 9th, and one had died. (click here). See also NR 1030. Report 9 August.

1151. Erica DeCelle, from Salem, Massachusetts, has mild Covid and her baby is due in Feb 2022 (click here). She had been vaccinated, and is recovering. Her husband and daughter had not been vaccinated and are both currently severely ill, and being ventilated. Report 29 November

1150. At least 781 pregnant women vaccinated in Nagpur, India (click here). Report 30 November Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1149. The wife of Naph Jabon, contracted Covid and gave birth by C-section at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York in early 2020 (click here). Report 29 November.

1148. Melia Nugraha, from Indonesia, contracted COVID-19 near term (click here). Report 30 November

29 November

1147. Nida Pelit from Kocaeli in northwestern Turkey contracted Covid at 31 weeks (click here). She was delivered by caesarean, required treatment with ECMO, and 40 days in ICU. Mother and baby recovered. Report 29 November.

26 November

1146. Anniree Muir, 23, contracted Covid at 29 weeks gestation on September 18 (click here). She required delivery by Caesarean at Bradford Royal Infirmary, and was seriously ill. She and the baby recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 26 November.

23 November

1145. Amy Yamaguchi, 22, from Orange County, California, contracted Covid at term and gave birth by Caesarean in October 2020 (click here). She then spent 5 months on ECMO at Cedars Sinai before undergoing a lung transplant. After many complications she recovered. Report 18 November. Update 1 Feb 2022 (click here). In this later report the baby’s birth date is given as 7 December 2020. AY started ECMO 13 December. Lung transplant 10 April 2021. Report 1 Feb 2022

1144. Sophie Byrne, 28, contracted covid and was delivered by Caesarean at 29 weeks (click here). She spent 11 weeks in hospital incuding a prolonged period ventilated but recovered. The baby survived. She had not been vaccinated. Report 23 November

18 November

1143. On November 2nd 2021 at the “Clinic for Infectiology Dr. Fran Mihaljevic” in Zagreb, one of two pregnant women on ECMO died. There are also two pregnant women “in a very bad state” at KBC hospital in Split, Croatia (click here). Report 2 November

1142. Katie Berry from Almondbury near Huddersfield, caught Covid-19, and gave birth at Calderdale Royal Hospital on August 22nd, at 27 weeks (click here). Ms Berry was in an induced coma for six days. Mother and baby recovered. Report 17 November

17 November

1141. Stephanie Curran, 28, from East Kilbride contracted Covid at 26 and gave birth immediately on October 15 (click here). She spent 24 hours intensive care unit at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital and recovered. The baby remains in NICU. Report 16 November

1140. Antonietta Delli Santi, age 26, contracted COVID-19 at about six months gestation, at the end of August. Her baby was delivered prematurely and died a few days later. Anotonieta died on 14 November, at a hospital in Naples (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Report 16 November.

16 November (HT Drs Christoph Brezinka & Branka Firulovic for news reports 1126 to 1139)

1139. An unnamed 28-year old woman died from Covid at 8 months of pregnancy in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (click here). Report 1 October

1138. On October 18.2021 an unnamed 28-year-old died at Sliven hospital, Bulgaria, from Covid (click here). She was at 22 weeks of gestation with twins. On the same day she had a cesarean, both babies died. The patient had presented with symptoms but had refused admission and was brought in a deteriorating condition later. Report 18 October.

1137. On October 16. 2021 an unnamed 20-year-old in the sixth month of pregnany died at Statu Mare hospital, Romania, from Covid after being delivered by cesarean (click here). The baby died too. She had been admitted with symptoms six days before. Riot police were called to defend hospital staff from 50 members of the patient’s family who threatened staff. Report 16 October.

1136. On October 11. 2021 an unnamed 32-year-old mother of three from Drobeta Turnu Severin died at 32 weeks of pregnancy in Bucur hospital, Bucarest, Romania (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Report 12 October

1135. On October 8. 2021 a young pregnant woman who had been admitted to Ploiesti hospital, Romania, in a serious condition died (click here). No further details. Report 8 October

1134. On October 5.2021 a 32 year old pregnant woman from Nucean, Romania, died in Oradea hospital in the 7th month of pregnancy from Covid (click here). She had not been vaccinated and had self-medicated at home with paracetamol for 11 days. Report 6 October.   

1133. On September 26 2021 a 34-year old woman in the 8th month of pregnancy, a nurse from Baia Mare hospital, Romania, died from Covid 3 days after her baby daughter who had been delivered by cesarean (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Report 26 September.

1132. On September 17.2021, 20-year old  Paula Ros from Nasaud, Romania, died from Covid at Bistrita hospital after a cesarean at 30 weeks (click here). The baby was transported to a specialized clinic in Cluj-Napoca where he is being ventilated. She had refused vaccination and had been infected by an aunt. Report 18 September

1131. On 31.07.2021, a Covid-19 positive pregnant patient at 28 weeks died in an ambulance transporting her from Arad to Timisioara, Romania.  The manager of  Timisioara hospital (Raul Patrascu) declared that his hospital had not been informed of the transfer, that saturation was already very low and intubation was performed too late. A different 33 year old woman at 25 weeks of gestation died of Covid. She had been transferred from Tirgu Mures hospital to Alba Julia hospital,Romania, because of her deteriorating condition: serious bilateral broncho-pneumonia, hepatic and respiratory failure. On August 30.2021 a 36-year old pregnant patient died from Covid at Piatra Neamt hospital. She lived in Spain and was visiting relatives. On arrival at the airport she had a negative test. She was admitted to hospital on August 12th, intubated and delivered of a premature baby one week later by cesarean. She was transferred to Spitalul Sfântul Spiridon hospital in Iasi, Romania, where she died two weeks later (click here). Report 18 September

1130. A Serbian tabloid lists eight women who died from Covid related to pregnancy (all not vaccinated) since the beginning of vaccination in Serbia (dates given as day-month-year). Four not reported elsewhere as follows. On 7.4.2021, D.T. (29 yrs ) died in“Dragisa Misovic“ hospital, Belgrade. On 19.04.2021, I.M.(32) a mother of five from Kostolac died at 4 months of gestation in Pozarevac hospital. On 29.04.2021, M.P. (27) from Zajecar, died at Nis hospital after being delivered of a healthy girl. On 19.08.2021, Milijana Radanovic (31) from Vlasotince, died in 6th month of pregnancy at Krusevac hospital. The other four are the same as NR 1126-1129 below. Report

1129. On October 10th, 2021, 33 year old S.I. from Arandjelovac died from Covid-related complications at Dragisa Misovic, Belgrade, Serbia, shortly after being delivered of a healthy boy by cesarean (click here). Report 12 October

1128. On October 2nd 2021, 20 year old Jovana Petrovic from Knjazevac, Serbia, pregnant with twins in the 4th month of gestation was admitted to Nis hospital in a serious condition with O2 partial pressure of 80% (click here). She died the following day. She had not been vaccinated. Report 6 October

1127. A 23 year old woman Anja J from Pirot, Serbia, died of Covid complications at Nis on Sept 24 2021 after being delivered of a 3400g baby girl  by cesarean (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Report 24 September

1126. A 33-year old Ana Pecić Jerotijević from Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia, died on October 8th 2021 Kragujevac hospital from Covid-related complications. She had been deliverd at 8 months of gestation by emergency cesarean, the child was intubated and transferred to NICU (click here). Report 9 October

13 November

1125. Lynlee Nichols contracted covid and gave birth by Caesarean on 8 August (click here). She required prolonged ventilation and later ECMO at Brookwood Medical Center, in Birmingham, Alabama, and was considered for a lung transplant but eventually recovered. The baby was fine. Report 12 November

12 November

1124. Danielle Williams, Melanie Hunter and Alice McIntyre all conceived shortly after getting vaccinated (click here). The first two have now given birth. Alice McIntyre’s pregnancy is ongoing. Report 8 November

1123, Alison Cornthwaite and Erica Hurteau got vaccinated while pregnant (click here). Report 12 November. Vaccine in pregnancy news report.

1122. Jessica McCullough contracted COVID-19 in her third trimester and gave birth at 34 by C-section at Memorial Health in Savannah (click here). She spent 39 days in hospital but survived. Her child survived. Report 11 November

10 November

1121. Rohaetin, the wife of Yulian Teguh Setiawan, and a health worker at the Gunung Jati Regional General Hospital in Cirebon, West Java, contracted Covid in late pregnancy and died (click here). Her baby survived. Report 10 November.

1120. Paola Gambini, 32, of Groveland, Florida, contracted severe Covid in late July at 33 weeks (click here). She gave birth on July 30 and was transferred to Orlando Health Regional Medical Center, where she was on ECMO for more than 40 days. She recovered. She had not been vaccinated. The baby survived. Report 9 November.

1119. Teresa Cadena, a nurse in Texas, got vaccinated post natally and continued breast feeding (click here). Report 10 November. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

9 November 2021

1118. Katie Leeming, 22, contracted covid and gave birth by Caesarean on 13 October at 26 weeks at Royal Preston Hospital (click here). She recovered, but her baby tested positive and died at 9 days. Ms Leeming had not been vaccinated. Report 9 November.

7 November 2021

1117. As of 2 November, 1,448 pregnant women have tested postive in the Dominican Republic (click here). Report 3 November

1116. Seventeen pregnant women have died from Covid in the country of Georgia from the start of the pandemic to 1 October (click here). One in 2020 and 16 in 2021. None of them had been vaccinated. Over the same period 7,338 pregnant women contracted the virus. Report 5 November

1115. Bailey Harvey got vaccinated at 19 weeks (click here). She is due in a few weeks. Report 6 November. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1114. An unnamed 38-year-ol pregnant woman died from Covid in Thessalonika, Greece, in September after giving birth by Caesarean (click here). Another is currently on a ventilator. Report 1 November

1113. Paula Gambine from Orlando contracted Covid on 29 July and gave birth by Caesarean on 30 July (click here). Her condition deteriorated and she spent 85 days in Orlando Health’s Regional Medical Center, on a ventilator and ECMO. She and the baby recovered. Report 7 November.

1112. Saiqa Parveen, 37, from Birmingham, UK, contracted Covid at 8 months gestation in mid September and was delivered by caesarean on September 26 (click here). She died early in November. She had not been vaccinated. Report 7 November

6 November 2021

1111. Jessica Papali’i-Curtin, a trainee plastic surgeon, was vaccinated in the third trimester and gave birth to a healthy baby in late September (click here). Report 3 November. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1110. Talashea Foster, from Lancaster, South Carolina, tested positive at 35 weeks and gave birth by C-section on July 30 to a healthy baby (click here). She was severely ill, spent over two months on a ventilator, but recovered. Report 1 November.

1109. Monic Ritz, contracted covid on 4 November, 2020 at 34 weeks (click here). She also had pre-eclampsia. Both mother and baby recovered. Report 5 November.

1108. Saskia Lane, 21, contracted Covid in August at eight months gestation, gave birth by caesarean and spent three weeks ventilated at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath (click here). She had not been vaccinated. She and the baby survived. Report 4 November.

4 November 2021 – NR 712 updated with link to vaccine source 73 (click here).

31 October 2021

1107. Megan Denk, 30, contracted COVID-19 at the beginning of September, at 24 weeks gestation (click here). She received a monoclonal antibody treatment at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, recovered and the pregnancy is ongoing. She had had the Pfizer vaccine in January. Report 29 October

1106. Krystal St. Pierre contracted covid while pregnant, was ventilated, and gave birth by Caesarean at about 28 weeks at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, British Columbia (click here). She remains on ECMO. She had not been vaccinated. The baby is recovering. Report 27 October

1105. Stacey Martin, from New Bern, North Carolina, contracted Covid late in her pregnancy and died shortly after giving birth (click here). Her baby survived. Report 29 October

1104. Andrea Contreras, from Halifax, Canada, contracted Covid while pregnant and gave birth normally (click here). She and the baby recovered, but her husband, who also had Covid, later died from the disease. Report 30 October

28 October 2021

1103. An unnamed 23-year-old woman from Lithuania died from Covid shortly after giving birth by Caesarean (click here). She had given birth in another hospital in Kaunas and on 21 October was transferred to the Intensive Care Clinic at the Kauno Klinikos hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, where she died on 27 October. She had not been vaccinated. She is reported to be the first maternal death from Covid in the country. Report 28 October.

1103. Sultana Ashiq, from Dunstable, contracted Covid while pregnant with twins and gave birth at 32 weeks (click here). She was seriously ill requiring a prolonged period in ICU and a tracheostomy but recovered. The twins also recovered. Report 28 october

26 October 2021

1102. Twenty three pregnant women are being treated for Covid in Atyrau, Kazakhstan (click here). Eleven as inpatients. Report 25 October

1101. Judith from Melboure, Australia gave birth normally to her first child and on her husband’s advice decided to delay vaccination till she stops breasfeeding at one year (click here). Report 26 October. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1100. Hajah Najibah binti Haji Usin tested positive when she gave birth at the National Isolation Centre (NIC), Borneo on September 30 by Caesarean (click here). She remained asymptomatic and her baby tested negative. She had been vaccinated. Report 26 October.

1099. Kalley Newkirk, 25, from the Mayo Clinic, got one shot of the Pfzier vaccine in January. Soon after she developed a mood disorder and soon after that suffered two miscarriages a month apart. She is currently pregnant again, and has declined the second dose (click here). Report 25 October. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

24 October 2021

1098. Nea Gates got her first vaccine dose on Oct. 6, at seven months gestation (click here). Report 18 October. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1097. Cheryl Franko, from Edmonton, Canada, got vaccinated while pregnant, first dose in March 2021, second in June, but contracted covid on August 23rd and gave birth on the 27th at term (click here). The covid was mild and her baby tested negative. Report 18 October. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1096. Amanda Harrison, 36, from Phenix City, Alabama, contracted covid at 29 weeks (click here). She was intubated and flown to a hospital in Birmingham, where she gave birth at 32 weeks. She and the baby recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 19 October.

1095. An unnamed pregnant woman recently died from Covid in Hawaii (click here). Her baby survived. She is the third to die since September. Report 21 October

1094. Taylor Manning, 31, contracted covid at 35 weeks and gave birth by Caesarean on 3rd August at Ocean Springs Hospital, Mississippi (click here). She required prolonged ventilation and a tracheostomy, but recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 22 October

1093. Kristin Lammert contracted Covid at 10 weeks gestion, recovered, and gave birth normally on August 25th (click here). Report 24 October

1092. Wendy Davidson from Coweta County, Georgia, contracted Covid and required ventilation. After two weeks she gave birth at 28 weeks by Caesarean at Kennestone Hospital (click here). She recovered. She had been vaccinated. Report 22 October.

1091. Louise Read, 35, contracted covid at 38 weeks, at the end of August, and gave birth by Caesarean at St Richard’s Hospital in Chichester (click here). She spent a week in ICU but recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 20 October.

1090. Amanda Perry, 36, from Dickson County, Tennessee contracted Covid and gave birth by Caesarean at 32 weeks on September 15 (click here). She was airlifted, to Virginia, for intensive care, but died on October 18th. She had not been vaccinated. Report 23 October

1089. Maria Roque-Diaz caught the coronavirus in November 2020, and gave birth a month later, at 32 weeks by Caesarean, while ventilated and on ECMO, at the University of Maryland Medical Center(click here). Both mother and baby recovered. Report 23 October

16 October 2021

1088. Brittany Cavanagh, from New Zealand, got her first vaccine dose in August, second in September, and is due at the end of October (click here). Report 15 October Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1087. Chloe Geoghegan and Annadina de Santis both got vaccinated while pregnant and had healthy babies (click here). Report 16 October. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

15 October 2021

1086. Kim Smith, 34, from Mitchell, South Dakota, contracted severe COVID-19, and gave birth on August 23rd, at 32 weeks, at Avera Hospital in Sioux Falls (click here). Her health deteriorated after the birth and she required ventilation for over a month. She remains in hospital. She had not been vaccinated. The baby recovered. Report 14 October Update 29 December (click here).

1085. Arianne Peters, from Corbin, Kentucky, contracted Covid in May and gave birth at the University of Kentucky Medical Center at 29 weeks (click here). Her baby suffered many complications, spent 75 days in the NICU, but recovered. Report 15 October

13 October 2021

1084. Valerie Gotie, a nurse practitioner at the Wilmot Cancer Institute at the University of Rochester Medical Center, got vaccinated in December 2020, while pregnant (click here). Her baby is fine. Report 11 October. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1083. Jenny Lappin, a 35-year-old marketing manager in Reading, Haya, a 33-year-old company director in London, Polly Gooch, a 27-year-old business analyst in Norwich, and Catriona, 35, who works in aviation in Aberdeenshire, got vaccinated while pregnant (click here). Report. 12 October. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1082. Ashley Bridgwaters (click here). No further details.

1081. Wendy Leal, from San Antonio, Texas, contracted Covid and gave birth to twins by Caesarean on 11th, or possibly 8th, October (click here). She had not been vaccinated. The twins are alive. Report 12 October

1080. Gabriela Acuna, 29, contracted Covid and had an emergency C-section on September 13 at 26 weeks gestation (click here). She is currently seriously ill on a ventilator and is reported to be hoping for a lung transplant. She had not been vaccinated. Her baby is alive. Report 12 October

1079. Claire Bromley, 33, from Kent, contracted severe Covid and required two weeks on a ventilator (click here). She recovered and the pregnancy is continuing. She had not been vaccinated. In the same report Kelsie Routs, 23, gave birth prematurely by emergency C-section and was placed in a medically induced coma for some days. She and her baby recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 11 October

7 October 2021

1078. Rosebluff Thomas Jennifer, 36, from Edmonton, Canada, contracted Covid, gave birth by Caesarean but died of Covid shortly after, on 3 September (click here). She had not been vaccinated. See NR 1025. Possibly the same woman. Report 6 October

1077. East Enders actress, Louise Lytton, 32, gave birth by Caesarean in September and contracted Covid shortly afterwards (click here). She recovered. Report 7 October

1076. A paternal postnatal death from Covid. Shilan Wali, the wife of Sirwan Ali from Kirkuk, Iran, gave birth to twins on 9 July (click here). She and the twins were fine, but Sirwan contracted Covid on 1 September and died on 1 October. Report 7 October

6 October 2021

1075. Shantal Feliciano, from Port Orange, Florida, contracted severe covid and gave birth by C-section at Adventhealth, on Aug. 8 (click here). She remains on ECMO. She had not been vaccinated. Report 5 October

1074. Brittany Luvender, from Ohio, contracted severe covid and was delivered by Caesarean at 28 weeks on September 17 (click here). She died on 1 Ocotober. She had not been vaccinated. The baby is fine. Report 5 October

1073. Kelsie Routs contracted Covid at 28 and was delivered by Caesarea (click here). She spent a week on a ventilator but recovered as did the baby. She had not been vaccinated. Report 5 October.

4 October 2021

1072. Emily Robison, 22, contracted Covid and gave birth by Caesar, at 28 weeks, at Mercy Hospital Fort Smith (click here). She spent a month on ITU and died on 20 September. She was unvaccinated. The baby is recovering in hospital. Report 4 October

1071. Autumn Carver, 34, from Indianapolis, contracted severe Covid and gave birth at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, by Caesarean, at 32 weeks (click here and here). On 18 September she had been on ECMO for over a month, and is awaiting a lung transplant. She had not been vaccinated. Report 1 October

1070. Marrisha “ReRe” Kindred Jenkins, 27, from Dekalb County, Georgia, contracted COVID-19 on September 4, gave birth at 33 weeks shortly after, and died on 23 September (click here) Her baby is healthy. She had not been vaccinated. Report 29 September.

1069. Carrie Summerset contracted covid in early August (click here). She gave birth at 29 weeks, and was intubated in ICU for over a month. She and the baby recovered. . Report 27 September

1068. Vicky Goodson, 40, from North Carolina contracted severe covid and gave birth on Sept. 11 by C-section, while ventilated (click here). She remains ventilated. She had not been vaccinated. The baby spent two weeks in the NICU but is now home. Report 3 October. Update 7 October. She died on 5 October (click here). Update report 6 October

30 September 2021

1067. Four women with Covid gave birth at the National Isolation Centre (NIC) in Brunei on 29/30 September (click here). They bring the total of Covid positive births in the NIC to 12. All 12 babies were delivered safely. Report 30 September

1066. An unnamed woman has died from Covid in Idaho (click here). The doctor reporting her death works at both St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Crenter in Twin Falls, Idaho, and at St Luke’s Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, so this may be the same case as the unnamed woman who was on a ventilator in NR 1015. Report 30 September

1065. Chequile Pettaway, from Houston, Texas, contracted Covid at term and gave birth on 2 August (click here). After the birth she required three weeks ventilation in ICU but recovered. She baby was fine. She had not been vaccinated. Report 29 September

1064. Deysi Moraes, from Boca Raton, Florida, contracted severe covid at 7 months gestation and gave birth by Caesarean at 32 weeks in July at Bethesda Hospital East (click here). The baby has been discharged but she remains on a ventilator, and her family understand that, because of brain and lung damage, she is unlikely to survive. She had not been vaccinated. Report 29 September

1063. An unnamed woman in Armagh, Northern Ireland, tested positive for Covid and later miscarried (click here). Report 29 September

1062. Lynn Carpenter, 21, contracted severe Covid at 7 months gestation and required ventilation for three weeks. She gave birth at 30 weeks on 8 Sept at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, New York (click here). She is now off the ventilator but remains in ITU. Report 29 september

1061. Patience Buxton De Santiago, from Morton, Mississipi, contracted Covid and was delivered by Caesarean at 32 weeks (click here). She spent a month in ICU and remains on oxygen therapy, but her and the baby survived. In the same report Jessica Odom from Florida also had moderataly severe Covid and was delivered by C-section at 32 weeks. Both her and the baby recovered. Neither woman had been vaccinated. Report 30 September

1060. A pregnant woman with Covid was treated at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (click here). Report 28 September

1059. Six unnamed pregnant women have died of Covid in pregnancy in Louisiana since mid-July (click here). They presumably included News Reports 927 and 1038. Report 28 September

1058. Six “parents of newborns”, preumably mothers although only one explicitly stated to be so, have Covid at the John Hunter Hospital Newcastle, Australia (click here). Report 30 September

1057. In the USA 161 pregnant women have died of Covid, with 22 deaths in the month of August 2021 (click here). Report 29 September. The source of these data is a CDC advisory (click here), also issued on 29 September.

27 September 2021

1056. An unnamed woman, aged 38, from Okinawa, Japan, contracted Covid, and gave birth on 28 August at 24 weeks at the University of Ryukyus Hospital (click here). The mother recovered. The baby remains in hospital. She had not been vaccinated. Report 27 September

1055. Carrie Somerset contracted covid in early August and gave birth at 29 weeks (click here). She required over a month of ventilation, but she and the baby recovered. Report 27 September

1054. Marrisha Jenkins, 27, from Atlanta, Georgia, contracted covid on 4 September at 36 weeks (click here). She gave birth on 7 September to a healthy baby. She was treated at home but died suddenly about two weeks after the birth. She had not been vaccinated. Report 27 September

1053. Alicia (Santana) Rogers, 30, from Colorado contracted covid about a week after giving birth to twins (click here). She died two weeks later on 7 September. She had not been vaccinated. Report 27 September

25 September 2021

1052. Jaidyn Dahn, 27, of Jackson, Michigan, contracted mild Covid at 18 weeks gestation (click here). She recovered and gave birth normally at Henry Ford Allegiance Health on 22 July. Report 24 September

1051. An unnamed pregnant woman with Covid from West Virginia tested positive for Covid and no hospital will accept her for drug abuse treatment until she tests negative (click here). Her pregnancy is ongoing. Report 24 September

1050. Two unnamed pregnant women in Hawaii have died of Covid during September (click here). Both babies survived. See also NR 1032. Report 20 September

1049. An unnamed woman, age 20, with severe covid, was delivered by caesarean at 28 weeks at Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, on 24 September (click here). She is critically ill on life support. Another unnamed woman, aged 27, also with Covid was delivered by Caesarean at 27 weeks on the same day. She is being ventilated. Report 24 Sepember.

1048. Samantha Kelly, from McHenry, Illinois,contracted Covid at 32 weeks (click here). She was seriously ill, required delivery by Caesarean and ventilation, but her and the baby recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 22 September

1047. Dr. Kelly Ferroni, an obstetrician at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) contracted covid in October 2020 at 26 weeks (click here). She gave birth in Feb 2021 normally to a healthy baby. Report

1046. Abby Sgro from Springfield, Illinois, got vaccinated in the third trimester and had a healthy baby (click here). Report 21 September. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1045. Ankara City Hospital, Turkey, has 25 pregnant women admitted with Covid, none of whom are vaccinated (click here). Fatma Aybar, 29, is one, and is recovering. In the same report Tülin Sargın, 34, got vaccinated during pregnancy, after she had tested positive. Report 20 September. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1044. Patricia Denise Jackson, 31, contracted severe Covid and gave birth by Caesarean on 1 Sept at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona (click here). She died on 13 Sept.  Report 25 September.

1044. Lorren Reeves, 26, contracted severe covid in July at 26 weeks, required ventilation, and gave birth by Caesarean at 27 weeks, at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth (click here). Her and the baby recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 19 September

1043. Prem Koonkhuntod from Myrtle Beach, South carolina, contracted Covid in early August at seven months (click here). She gave birth by Caesarean, and required ECMO, at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), but recovered. The baby also survived. She had not been vaccinated. Report 25 September

1042. Bianca Carrington, 29, contracted Covid at 8 weeks and miscarried (click here). She died soon afterwards. She had not been vaccinated. In the same report five unnamed pregnant women died of Covid at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, over a four week period. It is not clear if she was one of them. See also NR 854 and 899. Report 23 September

1041. Cecilia Vega-Britez, 36, from Brewster, New York, contracted Covid at 26 weeks (click here). She recovered and the pregnancy is ongoing. She had not been vaccinated. Report 24 September

1040. Fationa Nikolli tested positive at 31 weeks and was delivered by Caesarean at Birmingham Women’s Hospital on 6 July (click here). Her baby was stillborn. Report 23 September

17 September 2021

1039. Samantha Kelly, from Crystal Lake county in Illinois, had severe Covid and gave birth at 33 weeks. (click here). She is currently on a ventilator. Report 16 September

1038. Keighlie Renee Reaux, 24, from Louisiana, contracted on July 26 at 38 weeks pregnant (click here). She gave birth to a healthy child by Caesarean on 4 August. She was ventilated on 9 August, suffered a cardiac arrest on 21 August and died on 12 September. She had not been vaccinated. Report 16 September

1037. Katie Moran, who worked at Unity Health in Searcy, Arkansas, contracted Covid early in August around the same time she gave birth (click here). On August she was transferred to a hospital in Memphis and intubated. She died on 15 September. Her baby’s outcome and her vaccination status were not reported. Report 16 September

1036. Vanessa Rickard, 36, a Filipino employment pass holder in Singapore, contracted Covid in August at 37 weeks (click here). She gave birth at 38 weeks at Singapore General Hospital, and was separated from her baby for 2 & 1/2 weeks. Both recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 16 September

15 September 2021

1035. Two unnamed women with Covid gave birth in Lapu-Lapu city hospital, the Philippines, on 14 September (click here). Report 15 September

1034. Lyn-Fatt Colquhoun, a mental health officer at the Black River Hospital in St Elizabeth, died from Covid on 10 September, at the University Hospital of the West Indies, three weeks after giving birth (click here). Report 14 September

1033. Esmeralda Ramos, 43, from Victorville, California, who was due in November, contracted Covid, lost the pregnancy, and is now on a ventilator (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Report 14 September

1032. An unnamed woman died from Covid in Hawaii shortly after giving birth (click here). The baby survived. Report 14 september

13 September 2021

1031. Valerie Allen, 29, from Statesville, North Carolina, contracted Covid on 3 August and gave birth normally at term, on 8 August (click here). Postnatally she became severely ill and require ITU treatment, but it is not clear if she was ventilated. She recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Her baby was fine. Report 12 September

1030. Police officer Anisa Khan, from Cunupia, Trinidad and Tobago, died of Covid on 11 September, one week after giving birth (click here). In the same report, one other unnamed pregnant woman had died of Covid, out of 383 who had contracted the virus in Trindad and Tobago up to 1 September. It was not known whether Khan had been vaccinated. Report 13 September

11 September 2021

1029. 36 pregnant women with Covid are currently hospitalised in the Zhambyl province of Kazakhstan (click here). Seven are in ICU. Since the start of the pandemic 1,005 pregnant women have been infected in the province. Report 10 September

1028. An unnamed, unvaccinated woman in her thirties, from Corpus Christi-Nueces County, Texas, suffered a fetal death at 22 gestational weeks (click here). She had Covid. This is the third such fetal death to women with Covid in the county. Report 10 September.

1027. ESPN college football and basketball reporter, Allison Williams, who is trying for a second child, has decided not to get vaccinated (click here). Report 10 September. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1026. Haylie Kelly contracted mild Covid in August and has recovered (click here). She is due to give birth later in September. She has still not been vaccinated. In the same report five pregnant women have been admitted to West Penn Hospital, Pittsburg, in the past month with severe covid. Report 10 September

1025. An unnamed woman from Alberta has died from Covid in an Edmonton Hospital shortly after giving birth (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Her baby survived. Report 10 September

1024. 41 pregant women have died of Covid in Sri Lanka since the start of the third wave (click here). About 5,500 pregnant women have been infected. Report 10 September

1023. Madelyn Zwick-Watson, 19, from Ludlow, Cincinnati, contracted Covid in late August and gave birth by caesarean at 33 weeks on 5 September (click here). She is now being ventilated at University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and the doctors are considering using ECMO. She had received the first dose of vaccine in late August. Her baby is doing fine. Report 10 September

1022. Davy Mathias, (in some reports Macias), 37, a labour and delivery nurse, from Yucaipa, California, gave birth on 18 August and died of Covid on 30 August (click here). She had not been vaccinated. The baby is healthy. Report 31 August

1021. Ten pregnant women have died of Covid in Princess Margaret Hospital, Nassau, the Bahamas, since the pandemic began (click here). Three died in the past six weeks. Over the whole pandemic the hospital has treat 130 pregnant women with Covid. Report 10 September

1020. Erin Hogg 20, from Wisbech, was vaccinated while pregnant, although she didn’t know she was pregnant at the time (click here). She gave birth normally on 10 August at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn. Report 10 September Vaccine in pregnancy news report

10 September 2021

1019. Myra Bantigue-Obolsky, 35, from Jacksonville, Florida, contracted Covid at 31 weeks, was delivered by Caesarean and died 12 days later (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Her baby survived. Report 9 september

1018. An unnamed woman, who is 24 weeks pregnant, is in the intensive care unit at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia (click here). She had not been vaccinated. In the same report, Caroline McCarthy got the first foes of the Pfizer vaccien while pregnabnt. Report 31 August

1017. In August an unnamed woman, from Sydney, Australia, with severe covid was delivered by Caesarean at 28 weeks and placed on a ventilator (click here). Report 10 September

9 September 2021

1016. In February 2021, an unnamed Tokyo woman in her 30s, who was 37 weeks pregnant contracted Covid (click here). After two weeks in a Tokyo hospital she gave birth naturally at 39 weeks. Mother and baby were fine. Report 6 September

1015. Ashlee George got vaccinated early in her pregnancy (click here). She is due 1 January 2022. In the same report an unnamed pregnant woman with COVID-19 was being ventilated in the ICU at St. Luke’s Medical Center, Boise, Idaho, on 1 September. Report 5 September. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1014. Madeline Woods from Sydney Australia tested positive two days after giving birth at Campbelltown Hospital (click here). Her baby also tested positive age 8 days. Both recovered. Report 6 September.

1013. Nancy Notzon from Newcastle, Australia, got vaccinated in August at about 6 months gestation (click here). Report 7 September

1012. Sharnai Crossland, 23, from Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, tested positive for Covid on July 18, and was nursed at home (click here). However some days later her baby died in utero and she gave birth on July 28. She had not been vaccinated. Report 6 September

1011. According to Facebook and Twitter, FoxNews reported that Krystal Blackwell, from Seagoville, Texas, died from Covid three days after giving birth (click here or here). However the main Fox News link https://www.fox4news.com/news/seagoville-mom-of-three-dies-from-covid-19-days-after-giving-birth has been taken down. Reports 8 September

1010. Jasmine Ballard from St Louis County, Missouri, contracted Covid and required delivery by Caesarean at 26 weeks on 4 August (click here). She required ventilation, and ECMO was attempted, but was unsucessful. Despite this she is now off the ventilator and her and the baby are recovering in hospital. She had not been vaccinated. Report 5 September

1009. An unnamed 30-year-old unvaccinated woman with Covid gave birth at the Emek Medical Center in Afula, Israel (click here). She was transferred to the ITU at Carmel Medical Center in Haifabut where she died on 7 September. Another unnamed 28-year-old unvaccinated woman, who had recently given birth via C-Section is currently ventilated at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera. In the same report 25 pregnant, and 26 post partum, women are currently hospitalized due to COVID in Israel. Report 9 September.

1008. Sara Caitlin Vilchez, 31, of Elgin, South Carolina, contracted Covid early in August and gave birth on Aug. 15 (click here). Three days later she required ventilation, and later died of surgical complications. She had not been vaccinated. Report 9 September

1007. Felicia Cabrera-Saez, from North Carolina, contracted Covid at about 20 weeks gestation (click here). She required prologed ventiation and a period of ECMO but was discharged from hopital with the pregnancy ongoing on May 28. She gave birth to a healthy baby in July. She had not been vaccinated but has now received her first dose. Report 8 September. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1006. Two unnamed pregnant women with Covid were ventilated and delivered preterm recently, at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois (click here). In the same report Yohane Matuce got the first shot of the Pfizer vaccine at St. Mary’s Medical Center, Palm Beach, Florida, on Aug. 31. Report 9 September. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1005. An unnamed 27-year-old woman with Covid gave birth to triplets at the De Soyza Maternity Hospital in Colombo (click here). The mother and the three children were said to be in good health. Report 9 September.

1004. An unnamed 29-year-old woman (known only as Case 777) died of coronavirus complications, two weeks after giving birth via Caesarean section on August 24, at the National Isolation Centre (NIC) in Brunei (click here). In the same report eight pregnant women who tested positive for COVID-19 were receiving treatment at the NIC. Four had given birth in the last month. Report 9 September. Update 11 September. She had also been treated with ECMO (click here).

4 September 2021

1003. An unnamed pregnant woman contracted Covid in May at (click here). She required ventilation at Virtua Voorhees Hospital, airlift to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Cesarean birth at 30 weeks. After six weeks ventilation, she is undergoing rehabilitation. She had not been vaccinated. The baby survived. Report 4 September

1002. Brittany Campana, 29, a labor and delivery nurse at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Florida, contracted severe covid during pregnancy (click here). She was delivered by Caesarean preterm, and both her and the baby recovered. She was not vaccinated. Sarasota Memorial Hospital had more than 50 pregnant women severely sick with COVID in August. Report 3 September.

1001. Two unnamed women with Covid gave birth recently to babies who also tested positive, at Hidajete Krasniqi hospital, Peja, Albania (click here). Both mothers and both babies recovered. Report 3 September

1000. Shakira Ramdihal from Leeds contracted covid at 20 weeks, and gave birth prematurely at 22 weeks at St James’s University Hospital on 28 July (click here). She recovered, but the baby died. Report 4 September

999. Shem McLeod, 43, contracted severe Covid and was delivered by Caeasarean on 25 July, at 33 weeks (click here). She survived after 5 weeks in coma, but remains in Walsall Manor Hospital, UK, undergoing rehabilitation. She had not been vaccinated. Her baby survived. Report 3 September

998. The wife, age 31, of Junior Laurent contracted severe Covid and was delivered by Caesarean at 32 weeks at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Florida (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Both mother and baby recovered. Report 3 September

997. Kyndal Nipper, from Georgia, contracted mild Covid at 36 weeks gestation (click here). She recovered but her baby was stillborn. She had not been vaccinated. Report 3 September

996. Dr Pratiksha Gavali, a pathologist at Irwin Hospital in Amravati, Maharashtra, tested positive for covid-19 in October 2020. Later, she delivered a stillborn baby and died from the infection five days later (click here). In the same report Sunita Chaurasia from Mumbai contracted covid-19 late in pregnancy in March 2021. She survived but her baby was stillborn. Report 3 September 2021.

995. Angeline Eschette, 33, from Lockport, Louisiana, contracted mild covid late in her pregnancy (click here). She gave birth to a healthy baby on 30 August. She had not been vaccinated. Report 3 September

3 September 2021

994. An unnamed woman with Covid gave birth at Sultan Ismail Hospital in Johor Bahru, Malaysia (click here). Report 2 September

993. Kimmie Pavone died of COVID-19 on 1 September (click here). Two weeks earlier, at 30 weeks, she had been delivered by casearean, at Spring Valley Hospital, Las Vegas. She was unvaccinated. Her baby had “an underdeveloped lung and bleeding of the brain” and remains in intensive care. Report 3 September

992. Charlotte Alter got two doses of the Pfizer vaccine in May, the first at 12 weeks gestation (click here). Her pregnancy is ongoing. Report 1 September

991. Kristen Roy, 38, from Franklin, Indiana, contracted Covid on 9 July. She required ventilation, but her condition deteriorated and she was delivered by Caesarean on August 13 at 25 weeks (click here). Two weeks later she died at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis. She had not been vaccinated. Her baby is alive at Riley Hospital for Children. Report 2 September

990. One unnamed pregnant woman is in the critical care unit at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Trust, UK. She has had only one dose of vaccine (click here). Report 2 September

2 September 2021

989. Amber Greenway, from St Augustine, Florida, died of Covid on 30 August (click here). She had given birth earlier in the month. Report 31 August.

988. Hajrah Aslam, 28, from Peterborough, contracted Covid in January 2021, at 35 weeks gestation (click here). She was placed into an induced coma for six weeks, followed by 11 weeks hospital rehabilitation, but her and the baby survived. Report 19 August

987. Morghan Elmore, 30, died of Covid in Silverdale Detention Center, a prison in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, shortly after giving birth (click here). She was not vaccinated. The child is “in bad shape”. Report 1 September

986. An unnamed woman, age 28, pregnant with triplets, contracted covid and recovered. Shortly thereafter she gave birth at the Puttalam hospital, Sri Lanka, on 1 September (click here). The babies were healthy. Report 2 September

985. Sabrina Dhillon, from Winnipeg, contracted Covid at 28 weeks and gave birth by Caesarean (click here). Both recovered but the baby required four months in ICU. Report 29 August

984. Davy Macias, 37, a nurse, from Yucaipa, California, died from Covid, on 26 August, at seven months gestation, shortly after giving birth (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Report 31 August

29 August 2021NR 940 updated. Reports 967 to 981 HT Branka Firulovic and Christoph Brezinka

983. Nadya Mustika Rahayu, the partner of Sworddut Rizki ‘DA’, a Malaysan celebrity, contracted Covid during her pregnancy, recovered, and gave birth to a healthy child on 13 April (click here). Report 18 April

982. Minal Waghmere, 32, died of Covid at 32 weeks on April 8 in the Kingsway Hospital in Nagpur, India (click here). Pryali Sur, the author of the report, contracted Covid in February while pregnant but recovered. Report 18 May

981. From the beginning of the pandemic until April 4th 2021 four pregnant patients had died from Covid at Pristina hospital, Kosovo (click here). Report 4 April

980. Duja Milanović Đurić, 28, died in the 7th month of pregnancy after being delivered by c-section on April 28 2021 in Bosnia (Republika Srpska) (click here). Report 28 April

979. An unnamed 22-year-old in week 30, died on May 16 2021 in UKC Republika Srpska hospital in Banja Luka, Bosnia (Republika Srpska). She had been transferred from Doboj hospital two weeks before with a positive Covid test and symptoms and delivered by c-section on May 3rd 2021 (click here). Report 17 May

978. Enida Goro, 38, from Fojinca, Bosnia, died from Covid on April 13. 2021. She was pregnant with her third child (click here). Report

977. An unnamed 38-year-old died from Covid on April 19 2021 at Podgorica hospital, Montenegro (click here). She had been delivered of a female newborn by cesarean five days before. The baby was breathing spontaneously. Report 19 April

976. An unnamed 29-year-old woman died from Covid 19, five days after cesarean on April 7th 2021 in Dragisa Misovic hospital, Belgrade, Serbia (click here). Report 7 April

975. An unnamed 32-year-old pregnant patient in 4th month of pregnancy died on April 9 in Pozarevac hospital, Serbia (click here). She was Covid-positive, and the cause of death was given as gastric ulcer perforation. Report 10 April

974. An unnamed 27-year-old died a day after giving birth on April 29 2021 in Nis hospital, Serbia (click here). She had been transferred from Zajecar hospital 3 days before, a cesarean was planned at 35 weeks but the anaesthesiologist delivered the baby vaginally. Possible duplicate report of the second case in NR 973.

973. Two unnamed pregnant women were reported to have died from from Covid related complications, despite a negative covid test, in Nis hospital, Serbia (click here). The first woman had been delivered by c-section on 26 July 2021 of a 900g baby who was transferred to NICU. The second woman was aged 27, but no further details were given. Report 29 July

972. An unnamed 31-year-old woman was transferred from Leskovac hospital to Krusevac hospital in Serbia, on August 2nd and died there from Covid-related complications on August 20 2021 at seven months gestation (click here). Report 22 August

971. An unnamed 32-year-old woman died from Covid pneumonia shortly after cesarean section in Croatia. The newborns weight was given at 2200 g (click here). Date of death was not given. Report 4 May

970. On June 17 2021, an unnamed 28-year-old pregnant woman died from Covid in Bulgaria (click here). Report 18 June

969. On April 30 2021 an unnamed 36-year-old pregnant woman died from Covid in Bulgaria (click here) Report 30 April

968. On April 24 2021 an unnamed 32-year-old pregnant woman died from Covid in Bulgaria (click here) Report 24 April

967. An unnamed 28-year-old woman died of Covid on April 1st 2021 in Sliven hospital “Dr. Vasilev Petrov“ in Bulgaria, two days after giving birth at 32 weeks (click here). The newborn survived and is Covid negative. In the same report an unnamed 36 year-old, 6 months pregnant, died on March 28 2021 in Umbal-Burgas hospital. She had been delivered by c-section on 19 March. On March 24th another unnamed patient, pregnant with twins, died after c-section. The father of the twins also died from Covid complications. Both infants were transferred to NICU and were Covid negative. Report 12 April

28 August 2021

966. An unnamed pregnant woman who tested positive for COVID-19 gave birth on 26 August at the National Isolation Centre, in Tutong, Bruei (click here). She was the second active case to give birth there. Report 27 August

965. Sierra Lacey from Oaklahoma got vaccinated during pregnancy and gave birth to a healthy baby (click here). In the same report an unnamed woman and her unborn baby died from Covid at Oklahoma University Medical Center at 31 weeks. Another unnamed pregnant woman with Covid required ECMO at Baptist Medical Center. Report 27 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

964. Victoria Kelehear, 26, from Florence, South Carolina, contracted Covid at 36 weeks and gave birth by caesarean in July (click here). Her baby is fine but Victoria required treatment with ECMO and currently remains on a ventilator at a Charleston hospital. Report 28 August Update 9 September (click here). She went home on 6 September.

963. Student nurse Keisha Chadwick, 28, from Ashton-under-Lyne, contracted Covid late in pregnancy (click here). She gave birth to a healthy baby but was diagnosed with breast cancer seven weeks later. Report 27 August

962. Two unnamed pregnant woman are being treated for Covid-19 at St Luke’s General Hospital, Carlow, Kilkenny (click here). Report 26 August

961. An unnamed woman with Covid gave birth to a stillborn baby, who also tested positive, on 22 August in France (click here). Report 23 August

960. Priyanka, 26, wife of Sreejith of Chengannur died from Covid at Thiruvalla Believers Hospital, in Kerala, India, shortly after giving birth by Caesarean at seven months (click here). The baby is in intensive care. Report 24 August

959. Filipino bossa nova singer Sitti, full name Sitti Katrina Baiddin Navarro-Ramirez, 36, got two doses of the Moderna vaccine during her pregnancy (click here). Report 23 August

958. An unnamed 34-year-old pregnant American woman died from Covid at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James, Jamaica, on 23 August (click here). Report 23 August.

957. Malaysian singer, Siti Sarah Raisuddin, 36, died from Covid three days after giving birth by Caesarean at eight months gestation at the Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz (click here). Report 10 August

27 August 2021NR 940 updated. NR 956 added belatedly.

956. Dr Farha Niloufer, 31, a paediatrician from Gajwel district of Telangana, died due to COVID-19 a week after childbirth on 13 May (click here). She died at Princess Esra Hospital in the old city of Hyderabad. Report 13 May

955. Allison Hines from Bryan, Texas, contracted Covid at 36 weeks (click here). Her baby died at 37 weeks due to suspected placental thrombosis. She recovered. She had not been vaccinated. Report 24 August

954. By 7 August, 39 pregnant women had tested positive to COVID-19 in Sydney, Australia (click here). Report 23 August

953. Indian actress, Neha Dhupia, 41, contracted mild Covid early in pregnancy (click here). She recovered and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 27 August

952. Edwina ‘Eddy’ Bartholomew, TV presenter of the Sunrise TV show in Australia, got vaccinated while pregnant (click here). Report 25 August.

951. Dr Samra Ali, a pregnant gynaecologist at the Wah International Hospital, Taxila, Pakistan, died of Covid-19 on 22 August (click here). Flight Lieutenant Dr Mahnoor Farzand, also pregnant, died from Covid at the Combined Military Hospital, Malir Cantonment, on the same day. Neither had been vaccinated. Report 24 August.

950. Madeline Sweezer, 24, from Centralia, Missouri, contracted Covid at 31 weeks on 22 July (click here). On 5 August she was delivered by Caesarean and placed on a ventilator. The baby survived but Madeline required two weeks in ITU. She recovered. She had not been vaccinated, although she has been now. Report 23 August.

949. According to this report 1.85% of pregnant women diagnosed with Covid in Thailand have died, and pregnancy related deaths accounted for 0.43% of deaths due to the disease between December and August 11th (click here). Report 25 August

948. Brontë Bates, 29, from South Shields, got two doses of the Pfizer vaccine while pregnant (click here). Report 25 August

947. Tricia Lee, from Wichita, who had previously had Covid, contracted it for a second time and required admission to hospital (click here). She recovered and the baby is due in about a week. Report 27 August

946. Lucy Smith, 18, contracted Covid, was delivered by Caesarean at James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK, and required ventilation and four weeks in ITU (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Report 25 August. HT @Susan_Bewley.

945. Sixteen pregnant women with Covid have been treated in ITU in Belfast to date in 2021 (click here). Ten were ventilated. None died, but see report 936. None had been admitted with Covid in 2020. Report 24 August

944. An unnamed pregnant woman died from Covid at Broward Health Medical Center, Miami, Florida recently (click here). This location suggests this was not Greyzie Miller report 980, but it could be Kristen McMullen report 882. Report 24 August

943. Gabriella Nardi-McGee, from New York got vaccinated at 12 weeks. She is now 24 weeks (click here). In the same report an unnamed pregnant woman with Covid delivered preterm, and spent months seriously Ill in ICU in Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was unvaccinated but recovered. Also in the same report Molly Wadzeck Kraus from Trumansburg, New York got vaccinated while pregnant and gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Report 23 August

942. Islay Mactaggart, 36, had her two vaccine doses at 14 and 26 weeks gestation (click here). She is now 28 weeks. Report 21 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

941. Haley Mulkey Richardson, 32, a nurse from Theodore, Alabama, was due in November. She contracted Covid in July, was admitted to hospital early in August, and died on 20 August. Her baby had died two days earlier (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Report 25 August

22 August 2021

940. Mahima Mathew, 23, from Kanjirappally, Kerala, India, who was seven weeks pregnant, was vaccinated on 6 August. On 15 August she became seriously ill, and was admitted to a private hospital in Pala. She died on 20 August (click here and here). The postmortem report cited brain haemorrage as the cause of death and the death certificate cited COVID-19 vaccine as a contributory cause. The type of vaccine she received is not stated. Reports 22 August Vaccine in pregnancy news report Update 27 August. Reported on 23 August (click here) that the cause of death was cerebral venous thrombosis and vaccine-associated thrombocytopenia. Update 29 August. This report (click here) implies that she had received the Covishield (Oxford, AstraZeneca) vaccine.

939. Kameron Fischer, 24, of Quincy, Illinois, contracted COVID-19 on July 15 at 29 weeks (click here). She required 8 days intensive care at HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, and recovered. The pregnancy is ongoing. She had not been vaccinated. Report 22 August

938. An unnamed pregnant woman, age 37, from Colombia, gave birth by Caesarean and died on 11 August from Covid at the Cabueñes Hospital, Gijon, Spain (click here). Report 22 August

937. An unnamed woman with Covid was admitted to the intensive care unit of Petah Tikva’s Beilinson Medical Center, Israel, shortly after giving birth (click here). She was unvaccinated. Outcome not reported. Report 22 August

936. Samantha Willis, 35, from Derry, Northern Ireland, contracted Covid while pregnant and died on August 20, at Altnagelvin Hospital (click here). Her baby survived. Report 22 August.

21 August 2021

935. Amy Shedon, 29, from Girvan, Scotland, got vaccinated at 32 week and gave birth to a healthy boy in April (click here). Report 18 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

934. The unnamed wife of Dr. Omar Ibrahimi got the Moderna vaccine at 11 weeks and give birth normally (click here). Report 16 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

933. An unnamed woman died of Covid on 16 August at Virgen del Rocio university hospital in Seville, Andalucia, Spain, shortly after giving birth (click here). She had not been vaccinated. The baby is healthy. In the same report 44 pregnant woman have been admitted to hospital in the region, and seven are in intensive care. Report 20 August

932. An unnamed policewoman from Banga, South Cotabato, in the Philippines, contracted Covid and was delivered by Caesarean on 10 August (click here). She died about 3 days later. The baby is healthy. Report 19 August

931. Thirty nine COVID-positive pregnant women were admitted to the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital in August. (click here). On the 19 August, ten were in intensive care and seven on ventilators. In the same report Dr Jessica Grayson, got the Pfizer vaccine at 21 weeks in December, and gave birth normally in April. Report 20 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

930. Ninety four pregnant women have tested positive for coronavirus in 2021, in Tanah Datar District, West Sumatra, and one has died (click here). Report 20 August

929. 1,754 pregnant women have been vaccinated in Jakarta, Indonesia (click here). Report 19 August Vaccine in pregnancy news report

928. Paige Ruiz, from Fort Worth, Texas contracted Covid and gave birth by Caesarean section on August 2nd (click here). She died on 15 August. She had not been vaccinated. Report 13 August

927. Lacresanna Williams, 21, from Shreveport, Louisiana, contracted covid, gave birth by Caesarean and died (click here). The baby survivied. She had not been vaccinated. Report 19 August

926. An unnamed woman in her 30s with Covid, in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, was unable to find a hospital to give birth in and delivered at home at 29 weeks (click here or here). Her baby died. Report 20 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

925. Between two and five pregnant women are currently being admitted to Jupiter Medical Center in Florida each day due to COVID-19 (click here). Report 19 August

924. An unnamed pregnant woman was treated with ECMO at a hospital in Yale (click here). The baby died and the mother’s outcome was not known. Report 16 August

923. Kelly Lawler, TV critic for USA TODAY, got the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at five weeks and the second at 9 weeks (click here). She is now six months and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report undated but Google says 20 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

922. Aimee Styles had the Pfizer vaccination at 14 weeks pregnant, and Emily Reed had her first dose at 8 weeks and second at 22 weeks (click here). Report 18 August Vaccine in pregnancy news report

921. Yuranis De Radomska Munoz got vaccinated at 32 weeks, at the Jessop Wing maternity unit in Sheffield (click here). Report 14 August Vaccine in pregnancy news report

920. Zara Zuckerman, got vaccinated while pregnant, or soon after; the article is ambiguous (click here). Report 18 August Vaccine in pregnancy news report

919. Vanessa Alfermann, 32, a nurse at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis, contracted covid at 20 weeks, in November 2020, and miscarried (click here). Report 21 August

918. Jane, 34, tested positive in late pregnancy and gave birth normally at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva, Fiji (click here). Two unnamed pregnant woman are also reported to have died in Fiji in July. Grace Holmes Tui, 26, who is expecting her second child in October, got the Moderna vaccine. Report 20 August Vaccine in pregnancy news report

18 August 2021News Reports 547 & 780 also updated

917. Melissa Jones from Pensacola, Florida, got vaccinated in March and gave birth early in August (click here). Report 17 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

916. Clara, from Norwich, UK, had both doses of the vaccine while pregnant (click here). Report 18 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

915. An unnamed woman with covid gave birth at Mercy Hospital, Bakersfield, California recently (click here). Her baby is currently in the NICU, and may be infected with Covid. Report 18 August

914. An unnamed woman from Central Texas contracted covid while pregnant with twins (click here). She recovered but both twins died on 20 July. Report 17 August

17 August 2021

913. An unnamed pregnant woman from Valladolid, Negros Occidental, the Philippines, contracted Covid on 2 July and was treated at Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (click here). Sher and the baby recovered. Report 16 August

912. Shantel Feliciano from Volusia County, Florida, contracted Covid on 6 August at term and was delivered by Caesarean (click here). She remains sedated in hospital. The baby is home. Report 16 August

911. Anti-vaccine protestors invaded a special pop-up vaccination clinic for pregnant women in the Foyle arena in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on 14 August (click here). Report 16 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

910. Yahaira Gallardo-Martinez, 25, of Dallas, got vaccinated in January and gave birth to a baby girl on August 6 at Parkland hospital (click here). Courtney Johnson of Dallas, 37, a nurse practitioner, gave birth on May 28 and has been vaccinated. Report 16 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

909. Carolina Martinez, 32, contracted Covid on 28 April in the 2nd trimester (click here). She required ventilation at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin from then until 2 June, and remains on oxygen therapy. She is due to give birth at the end of August. She had not been vaccinated. Report 16 August

908. Greyzie Miller, 31, from Jacksonville, Florida, contracted Covid at 31 weeks and was delivered by Caesarean at 32 weeks (click here). Following 19 days ventilation she died on 15 August. She had not been vaccinated. The baby survived. Report 16 August

907. There have been 900 new COVID-19 cases in pregnant women in Alberta since April (click here). Two are presently in ICU and one unnamed woman is on a ventilator. In the same report Annalise Klingbell, 33, and Kielan Buzzard, who are both due in November got vaccinated. Report 16 August Vaccine in pregnancy news report

906. There were 27 pregnant women with Covid in Los Angeles County in the week ending June 27, and 81 during the week ending July 25 (click here). There have been 11,264 confirmed COVID cases among pregnant women in the county as of Aug. 10, the vast majority of them Latina. Twelve women who tested positive have died. Report 16 August

16 August 2021

905. One unnamed pregnant staff member contracted covid at the Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital in Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia (click here). Report 16 August

904. Amandeep Kaur Khosa, 48, from Haryana, India, contracted Covid while pregnant with IVF twins (click here). She was delivered by Caesarean on 25 May at 26 weeks. Mother and both twins recovered. Report 15 August.

903. An unnamed pregnant woman, age 32, from Barangay Sum-ag, the Philippines, swabbed postive on 19 July (click here). Report 16 August

902. Dr P Shanmugapriya, 32, of Anuppanadi Urban Primary Health Centre, Madurai, India, died of Covid on 8 May, at Government Rajaji Hospital, at eight months gestation (click here). The baby’s outcome was not reported. Report 16 August

901. Ashley Tunnel, 30, from Benton. Tennessee contracted Covid on 23 July. Her baby died at about 22 weeks (click here). She required ventilation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s ICU, and is recovering. Report 15 August

900. Avila Geraldine Samuel from Malaysia got vaccinated during pregnancy (click here). Report 16 August

899. Two unnamed pregnant women died of Covid in the last week in Mississippi (click here). One was a 32-year-old woman with very few health conditions delivered by Caesarean at an unnamed hospital at 32 weeks. Her partner also died of covid, but the baby is doing fine. No details given of the other maternal death. In the same report another unnamed women with Covid delivered at 34 weeks and the baby died. Yet another unnamed 27-year-old woman with Covid required ICU treatment, and on 10 August ventilation which is ongoing. Her baby is alive. None of these women had been vaccinated. Report 13 August.

15 August 2021

898. Iftiyah [first name only], age 25, w/o Afrizal, from Bekasi, Indonesia, contracted Covid at 30 weeks and was delivered by Caesarean on 11 July at a hospital in Yogyakarta (click here). She died on 22 July. The same report states that there have been at least 85 maternal deaths, of which nearly 70% were due to Covid, in Central Java’s regencies of Grobogan and Banyumas this year. Report 15 August.

897. Carrie Johnson, 33, wife of Britain’s Prime minister Boris, has had both doses of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine (click here). She is due to give birth in December, which would make her about 20 weeks now. She is reportedly “feeling great”. Report 15 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

14 August 2021

896. Chelsea Harman, from Florida, contracted severe Covid on 2 August, required ventilation and delivered preterm (click here). She is now extubated, and her and the baby are recovering. She had not been vaccinated. Report 13 August

13 August 2021

895. Paulinda Inocencio, from Bastrop. Texas, contracted Covid in the third trimester and required ventilation and delivery by Caesarean (click here). Mother and baby are recovering. She had not been vaccinated. Report 12 August

894. An unnamed 37 year old woman from Nadi, Fiji, died from Covid in Lautoka Hospital on 7 August shortly after giving birth (click here). She had not been vaccinated.

893. Grayson Bakes, 21, from Utah contracted severe Covid and gave birth by Caesarean in August (click here). She remains on a ventilator. She had not been vaccinated. Report 12 August

892. 95 pregnant women contracted Covid last week in Ireland (click here). Report 13 August.

891. Alexa Sheeder, from Davenport Illinois, contracted COVID-19 on July 25 and gave birth on July 28 (click here). Her condition deteriorated. She was ventilated on 7 August and died on 10 August. She had not been vaccinated. Report 13 August

890. Katelyn Huber, from St Louis, Missouri, got vaccinated while pregnant and gave birth to a healthy baby (click here). Report 10 August Vaccine in pregnancy news report

889. Ashlee Caldwell, from Payson, Arizona, contracted Covid in July and gave birth at 30 weeks gestation (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Her baby remains in intensive care. Report 11 August

888. Braxten Goodwin, 24, from North Kansas City, died of COVID-19 on 2 August, two weeks after giving birth at 6 or 7 months gestation (click here). She had not been vaccinated. The baby is alive but has been transferred to Children’s Mercy hospital. Report 12 August

887. Cierra Chubb, 33, contracted Covid at 38 weeks and was delivered by caesarean (click here). Her baby is healthy, but she remains on a ventilator in an unnamed hospital South Carolina. She had not been vaccinated. Report 12 August Inadvertent duplicate of NR 868 deleted 9 September.

886. An unnamed woman tested positive after giving birth in Auburn hospital, Sydney (click here). Report 12 August.

885. Laura Curtis contracted severe Covid at 21 weeks and spent 17 days on a ventilator. She recovered and gave birth at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin on 14 July (click here). Report 11 August

884. An unnamed woman aged 29 contracted severe Covid while pregnant with triplets at 28 weeks (click here). She was delivered by Caesarean on 11 August at a designated hospital in southwest China’s border city of Ruili. The babies are in stable condition. The mother’s condition is not reported. Report 12 August.

883. Siti Sarah Raisuddin, a Malaysian singer, contracted severe Covid at 32 weeks, and was delivered by Caesarean while ventilated (click here). She died at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, a few days later. Report 10 August

882. Kristen McMullen, age 30, from Florida, contracted Covid and was delivered by Caesarean on July 23 (click here). She died from Covid on 6 August. Her vaccine status was not revealed. Her baby is healthy. Report 12 August

881. In February an unnamed woman got the BioNTech vaccine in Pennsylvania at 35 weeks (click here). Raeshel Contreras, age 33, had not yet decided at 28 weeks – she planned to decide by 30 weeks. Tista Banerjee did not get vaccinated and gave birth to twins in June. She got vaccinated in July. Report 12 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

8 August 2021

880. An unnamed pregnant woman, 35, from the Kanto region of Japan, who was due in September, got vaccinated on 9 July (click here). Report 8 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

879. Kassidy Hazelton, 37, contracted Covid in May at 5 months gestation and delivered on May 31 by Caesarean (click here). She was seriously ill, and spent seven weeks in Banner University Medical Center, Arizona. She had not been vaccinated. Report 8 August

7 August 2021

878. Hung Vuong Hospital, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vitenam has treated up to [sic] 120 pregnant women with Covid in the past week (click here). Tu Du Hospital, in the same city, has recently treated more than 70. Report 6 August.

877. An unnamed woman with Covid, treated by Halifax OBGYN in Daytona Beach, Florida, required delivery by Caesarean and ventilation (click here). No further details. Report 6 August

876. Colleen Bonds, 36, from Honolulu, contracted Covid, required ventilation and was delivered by Caesarean on 25 July at 28 weeks (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Report 6 August

875. Claudia Li, 30, from Birmingham, UK, contracted Covid at 24 weeks, and required ventilation, and delivery by Caesarean at 26 weeks, on 30 July (click here). She has recovered. Her baby remains in intensive care. She had not been vaccinated. Report 7 August

874. The Belfast Trust hospitals (Royal Victoria, Belfast City, Mater, Musgrave Park, Children’s, Royal Maternity, Forster Green & Knockbracken) treated 12 pregnant or recently pregnant women for Covid last week (click here). Three are in ITU. Report 7 August.

6 August 2021

873. Danielle Chisolm from Rochester, New York, got vaccinated at 7 months gestation (click here). Report 5 August

872. An unnamed woman from Nueces County, Texas died from Covid a week after giving birth (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Nueces County is about 600 km from Taylor County, so this is unlikely to be the same woman as in reports 843 & 870. 6 August.

5 August 2021

871. Nurse Beth Borkowski from Madison, Wisconsin, received both Covid vaccine doses before becoming pregnant (click here). Report 4 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

870. An unnamed woman in her 20s, from Taylor County, Texas, who had recently given birth, died from Covid in the last week (click here). Taylor County includes the town of Abilene, so this may be the same woman who was reported to be seriously ill on 30 July Report 843. Report 5 August

869. Kristy Callaway, from Corpus Christi, Texas, contracted Covid during her pregnancy (click here). Her son was healthy, but caught Covid age 5 months. Report 5 August

868. Cierra Chubb, 33, contracted Covid and gave birth by Caesarean at 33 weeks on July 26 (click here). She is currently being ventilated in ICU in Columbia, South Carolina. She had not been vaccinated. Report 5 August

867. Labour MP, Stella Creasy, 44, has had both doses of the vaccine while pregnant (click here). Report 31 July. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

866. Megan Jackson, from Asheville, North Carolina, got vaccinated at eight weeks gestation (click here). Her pregnancy is ongoing. Juliann May also got vaccinated during pregnancy. Report 4 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

865. On Monday 26 July, 114 pregnant and five lactating women were vaccinated in Bengaluru, India (click here). Report 30 July. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

864. Since 15 July, 234 pregnant women have been vaccinated in Mumbai (click here). One unnamed 24-year-old woman, who had received two doses of Covaxin, developed fever, vomiting, cough, headache and swollen gums. She recovered. Report 29 July. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

863. Valerie Manring, from Texas, received her first does of vaccine during pregnancy. She is now 26 weeks (click here). Report 3rd August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

862. Erin Gloria Ryan got vaccinated during pregnancy (click here). She is now in the third trimester. Report 1 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

861. Maria Garza, from Texas, got vaccinated during pregnancy and gave birth normally on July 19 (click here). Her husband had contracted Covid in February and died of it in June 2021. Report 4 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report Inadvertent duplicate of NR 828. Deleted 24 October

860. Sarah Brown, age 36, contracted Covid at 33 weeks, and required ITU treatment at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville (click here). She recovered and the pregnancy is ongoing. She had not been vaccinated. Report 5 August.

859. Kristen Hutton from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, got covid at 39 weeks and was delivered by Caesarean (click here). She spent 4 days in ICU but recovered. Her baby was fine. She had not been vaccinated. Report 30 July

858. Jodie Wilkinson, from Norwich, got vaccinated at 25 weeks and gave birth in May (click here). Laura Palmer, age 26, from Hingham, got vaccinated and her pregnancy is ongoing. Report 31 July. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

857. Nazia Akhtar, from Ashton, UK, got vaccinated while pregnant and gave birth normally in June 2021 (click here). Report 2 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

856. Mariecen Nituma Agillon, ang 26, contracted Covid at 31 weeks and her twins were delivered by Caesarean at 32 weeks at NMC Specialty Hospital, Al Nahda, Dubai (click here). She and the babies recovered. Report 3 August

855. Laura Brunton from Witney in Oxfordshire, got vaccinated while pregnant (click here). Her pregnancy is ongoing. Report 30 July. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

854. Portia Hayes had severe Covid and required ITU care and Caesarean birth at 27 weeks University of Mississippi Medical Center (click here). She recovered but suffered many complications. She had not been vaccinated. Her baby survived. Another unnamed pregnant woman is currently severely ill in the same unit. Report 3 August

853. In Catalunya, Spain, 549 pregnant women have been admitted to hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 so far in 2021. 52 required intensive care but all survived (click here). Report 5 August

852. Colleen Grande from Austin, Texas got the vaccine early on in her pregnancy which is ongoing (click here). Report 4 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

851. Three pregnant women died from Covid-19 in July in Spain (click here). One each in Barcelona, Málaga and Murcia. The patient from Murcia was probably also reported in sources 807 and 838. Report 2 August

850. Lydia Stephens, from the Rhondda in Wales got both doses of the vaccine prior to 30 weeks, and her pregnancy is ongoing (click here). Up to 22 July, around 1,677 pregnant women in Wales had had the vaccine. Report 4 August. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

1 August 2021

849. Stacey Knights, age 27, from Middlesborough, UK, contracted Covid in January 2021, at 12 weeks gestation (click here). She recovered. Report 31 July

848. Suma (an alias), age 37, contracted Covid, and gave birth at 31 weeks, while on a ventilator at Apollo Hospitals in Bengaluru, India (click here). She spent 36 days on ECMO, and a further 19 in ICU, but recovered. The baby also survived. Report 1 August.

847. Lorena Betancourt, age 26, from Argentina, gave birth with Covid and spent a month in intensive care (click here). She died on July 15. Her daughter survived. Report 1 August

31 July 2021

846. Over 227,000 pregnant women have received their first dose of anti-coronavirus vaccine in India (click here). 78,838 in Tamil Nadu, 34,228 Andhra Pradesh, 29,821 Odisha, 21,842 Madhya Pradesh, 18,423 Kerala and 16,673 in Karnataka. Report 30 July. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

845. Zoey Edwards, 32, from Preston contracted Covid. and was admitted to ITU at Royal Preston Hospital and delivered by Caesarean both on June 25 at 35 weeks (click here). She had not been vaccinated. She and the baby survived. Report 31 July.

844. Dr. Jane Martin from Ochsner Health in Louisiana, got vaccinated in the 34th and 37th weeks of her recent pregnancy and gave birth to a healthy baby (click here). Report 31 July. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

30 July 2021

843. An unnamed woman, aged less than 30, who recently gave birth, is now seriously ill with Covid, in Hendrick Medical Center, Abilene, Texas (click here). Report 30 July

842. Dr. Rebecca MacDonell-Yilmaz got the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine while pregnant (click here). Report 29 July Vaccine in pregnancy news report

29 July 2021

841. Imogen, 29, from Brighton got vaccinated in the second trimester (click here). Report 29 July Vaccine in pregnancy news report

840. Carrie Limon contracted Covid and gave birth at Sutter Roseville Medical Center, California, on May 7 (click here). Her son required NICU treatment, and she required ECMO, but both survived. She had not been vaccinated. Report 29 July

28 July 2021

839. Former olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson, age 29, tested positive for COVID-19 early in pregnancy and recovered (click here). She gave birth to a healthy baby by Caesarean on 19 July. Report 28 July.

838. An unnamed a 40-year-old woman with severe Covid gave birth two weeks ago in ICU in Murcia, Spain (click here). She died on 27 July. She is probably one of the women reported in source 807. Report 28 July

837. An unnamed woman with Covid was delivered by Caesarean at James Cook hospital in Middlesbrough this week (click here). The baby is doing fine. The mother remains ventilated. Report 28 July

836. Dr Gesti Wira Nugrayekti, age 25, who was training in anesthesiology at Airlangga University in Surabaya, contracted Covid and gave birth prematurely early in July (click here). Three weeks after the birth she died. She had not been vaccinated. In the same report, Indiana Alawasilah, age 33, from Bandung, contracted Covid during the third trimester in 2020. She required oxygen therapy but recovered. Report 28 July

835. Patience Atuhaire contracted Covid at 8 months gestation (click here). She was delivered by caesarean at Mulago Hospital, Uganda in February 2021, and required ICU treatment. Her and the baby survived. Report 27 July

834. Supraja Reddy Yeruva, age 27, got Covid in pregnancy in June and required ICU care at a private hospital in Hyderabad (click here). A month later she remains there. Report 29 July

833. Early in the pandemic two unnamed women who gave birth at Marin Health Medical Center, became critically ill with Covid and had to be transferred to University of California, San Francisco (click here). Both survived. Report 27 July

832. Clair Griffiths, age 43, contracted Covid and gave birth to a healthy son by Caesarean on 18 July (click here). Two days later she was readmitted to hospital with pneumonia, where she remains. Report 28 July

27 July 2021

831. Emmy Rossum, age 34, star of TV comedy “Shameless” got vaccinated during pregnancy and had a healthy daughter (click here). Report 27 July Vaccine in pregnancy news report

830. An unnamed 38-year-old woman with severe Covid gave birth at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, Israel, on 24 July (click here). Her daughter is fine but the mother’s condition deteriorated and she is presently on ECMO at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. She had not been vaccinated. Report 25 July.

829. Gemma Wilkinson, 38, got her first vaccination dose late in pregnancy and gave birth to a hea;thy girl (click here). She had her second dose while breastfeeding. Report 27 July. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

25 July 2021

828. Maria Garza, from Leander, Texas got vaccinated while pregnant in February 2021 and gave birth normally in July (click here). She had previously had mild Covid in 2020, and her husband had died of Covid in February 2021. Report 24 July. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

24 July 2021

827. Glorimar required long term ICU care at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kansa, while she was pregnant and gave birth nearly a year ago (click here). Mother and baby recovered. Report 24 July

826. At Christmas 2020, Sally, age 38, contracted Covid at 20 weeks (click here). The pregnancy outcome was not reported. Report 24 July

22 July 2021

825. An unnamed woman died shortly after giving birth in Ndola Teaching Hospital, Zambia (click here). Her cause of death and Covid status were not reported, but her partner had died of Covid three days earlier. Report 22 July

824. In Thailand, between December 2020 and July 3rd 2021, 581 pregnant women contracted coronavirus and nine died. 40 babies were born infected and four died. (click here). Report 22 July

823. Three unnamed pregnant woman, and two who have recently given birth, are currently hospitalised in Israel with Covid (click here). All are “in good condition”. Report 22 July

21 July 2021

822. Violinist Izzy Judd tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 early in her third pregnancy (click here). She recovered and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 21 July

20 July 2021

821. More than 100 pregnant women were admitted to hospital in each of the last two weeks [presumably weeks ending 2nd & 9th July] with COVID-19. No pregnant women who had received both doses of vaccine have been admitted to hospital since the vaccination programme began. Only five women admitted have received a single dose (click here). Report 15 July. Vaccine in pregnancy news report.

821. Peru is prioritizing pregnant women in its vaccination campaign (click here). Report 13 June Vaccine in pregnancy news report.

19 July 2021

820. Anshuma Chauhan, 30, died from Covid in April shortly after giving birth by Caesarean in Delhi, India (click here). Report 8 June.

819. Eight unnamed pregnant women died of Covid in Uruguay between April 29 and June 8 (click here). Report 2 July

818. Elisabeth Soto, 38, died from Covid on 19 April, six days after giving birth in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina (click here). Report 9 July

817. Oksana Shelomentseva had severe Covid and gave birth by Caesarean at 32 weeks in Irkutsk, Russia (click here). She required 51 days ventilation in ICU, but survived. Her baby also survived. Report 12 Jan 2021

816. Helen Singh, 22, from Fiji, contracted Covid on 22 June and gave birth soon after (click here). Mother and baby recovered. Report 19 July

18 July 2021

815. An unnamed 33-year-old woman in Thessaloniki, Greece, has Covid in her 6th month of pregnancy, and is being ventilated (click here). Report 18 July

814. Thirty three pregnant women died from Covid in Nepal between March 2020 and June 2021 (click here). Report 18 July

813. Dr Amy Manos age 31, from New South Wales, Australia, got vaccinated at 26 weeks gestation (click here). She is due in September. Report 18 July. Vaccine in pregnancy news report.

812. Angela MacDonald got vaccinated in April two weeks after giving birth (click here). Report 18 July Vaccine in pregnancy news report.

14 July 2021

811. About 150 pregnant women have tested positive in Fiji (click here). None have died. Report 14 July

810. An unnamed 22-year-old pregnant woman with Covid-19 is intubated at Nicosia General Hospital, Cyprus (click here). Report 14 July

13 July 2021

809. Vong Daneth, age 29, from Cambodia, contracted Covid at 7 months and was delivered by Caesarean (click here). She died but her baby survived. Report 13 July

808. Rakhi Mandal Biswas, age 31 contracted covid and was delivered by Caesarean at Kolkata Medical College and Hospital, at 32 weeks, on 21st June (click here). She died, but the baby survived. Report 13 July

807. Two unnamed women, aged 29 and 40, with Covid, one pregnant and one recently delivered are in ITU in Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, El Palmar, Murcia, Spain (click here). Both are reportedly on ECMO. The baby who has been delivered is alive. Report 13 July

806. Sophie Forrester, 28, contracted Covid and gave birth by Caesarean on on July 6 at Forth Valley Royal Hospital (click here). Mother and baby recovered. Report 13 July

12 July 2021

805. Shubha Deshmukh got vaccinated at eight months gestation in Pune, India (click here). Report 12 July Vaccine in pregnancy news report.

804. Vanessa de Oliveira Silverio, age 33, from São José dos Campos, in São Paulo state contracted Covid at 34 weeks and died during a Caesarean birth in March 2021 (click here). Her baby survived. Fabiana Alves Sousa, age 31, from Ceará state in the north-east Brazil also contracted Covid and was delivered by Caesarean at 30 weeks. Both mother and baby survived. Report 12 July

11 July 2021

803. An unnamed woman, age 22, with HIV and Covid-19, gave birth at Diphu Medical College and Hospital, Assam, India on 9 July (click here). A woman named SR Das, also with covid, gave birth the same day. Both babies are healthy. Report 11 July

7 July 2021

802. Kalyani Agrahari contracted Covid at 32 weeks (click here). She was admitted to Mahila Chikitsalaya (Women’s hospital) in Jaunpur, and died on April 24. The baby’s outcome is not reported. Report 9 June

801. Sari Azalea Yuliani, age 24, contracted Covid at 37 weeks (click here). She was delivered by Caesarean at Dr Esnawan Antariksa Air Force Hospital, Jakarta, on 30 June, and died two days later. Her baby tested negative, but had other complications from the birth, and also died. The report also states that, according to the Indonesian Obstetrics and Gynaecology Association (POGI), more than 500 pregnant women have tested positive since the pandemic began, with 4.5% needing ICU treatment, and about 3% dying as a result of the disease. Report 7 July

6 July 2021

800. Kavisha Patel (a pseudonym) died from Covid in June, after giving birth at 32 weeks in Ahmedabad, India (click here). The baby survived. Report 1 July.

799. Ashton Reed, 25, contracted Covid-19 at 30 weeks gestation (click here). She required ECMO at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (see source 795) and gave birth by Caesarean on May 27.  Mother and baby survived. Report 29 June.

798. Between 1 April 2021 and 30 June 2021 the Mother & Child Hospital at Silchar Medical College in Assam has cared for 160 pregnant women with Covid (click here). Of 82 births, 43 were by Caesarean. There were two Covid-related deaths; report unclear if these were of mothers or babies. Report 1 July

797. An unnamed woman tested positive at 24 weeks gestation in April (click here). She gave birth by Caesarean at the Government Medical College & Hospital, Nagpur, India on 20 June. The baby weighed 2.3 kg, was preterm, had congenital heart disease, tested positive for Covid and died age 8 days. Report 4 July

796. Amrita Sundareswaran contracted Covid-19 at six weeks gestation and recovered (click here). She gave birth by Caesarean on 26 April and her baby developed breathing difficulties. The baby had anti-Covid antibodies and recovered. Report 4 July

1 July 2021

795. Three unnamed pregnant woman at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences were on ECMO last week (click here). Report 30 June

794. Elizabeth Etherington, 40, received her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine at 34 weeks (click here). Report 24 June. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

793. Olivia Saxton got vaccinated in January. She conceived naturally in March and had her second dose at 13 weeks (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 30 June Vaccine in pregnancy news report

30 June 2021

792. Claudia Edwards, age 35, died from Covid at Princess Margaret Hospital in the Bahamas in May, the day after giving birth (click here). Report 30 June

29 June 2021

791. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 gave birth to a healthy baby at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda (click here). The disease was mild and both recovered. Report 29 June

790. Since August 2020, 190 women with Covid have given birth at Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati Medical College & Hospital, Brahmapur (click here). 109 were normal and 81 were Caesareans. Report 29 June.

789. Kate Barr, age 39, from Pittsburg, contracted Covid, gave birth on 13 May and died on 27 June (click here). Report 28 June

26 June 2021

788. Yesenia Lopez, age 34, from New York gave birth while on ECMO in April (click here). She and the baby recovered. Her husband had been vaccinated but she had decided against. Report 20 June. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

787. Jen Sizeland from UK got the Pfizer vaccine at 28 weeks (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 23 June Vaccine in pregnancy news report

786. Sara Edmond a clinical psychologist at the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System contracted Covid in pregnancy (click here). Mother and baby are fine. Report 21 June

785. Puji Apriani from Kudus, Central Java, Indonesia, died undelivered from Covid-19, at Loekmono Hadi General Hospital (click here). Report 24 June

22 June 2021

784. Prum Lay, age 35, and Ul Srey Nouch, age 18, both had Covid and gave birth naturally at Poipet Referral Hospital, Cambodia (click here). Mothers and babies are fine. Report 22 June

20 June 2021

783. Angie Wells tested positive during her pregnancy but her symptoms were mild (click here). Her baby was born at home in Benoni, east of Johannesburg, and initially tested negative, but later became seriously ill and tested positive. Both survived. Report 20 June

782. Manju, wife of Bharat Sharma, gave birth on 21 April and died of Covid on 29 ASpril (click here). Her baby survived. Daksha w/o Devdutt Taviyad, gave birth on 19 May and died of Covid complications on May 30. The unnamed wife of Nitin Sodha also died of Covid during or after her pregnancy. All three babies survived. Report 20 June.

781. Thrupathamma, aged 21, had severe Covid-19 symptoms and gave birth by Caesarean at 37 weeks at Continental Hospital, Hyderabad, India (click here). She was treated in ICU. Her baby survived. Both tested negative. Report 20 June.

19 June 2021

780. Hunter McGrady, age 28, a plus size model in the United States, contracted Covid at seven months (click here). She recovered and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 12 June. Update 8 July. She had a healthy baby (click here). Update 18 August (click here). She got vaccinated after the birth.

779. Priyali Sur, a Delhi-based journalist, contracted Covid in the 2nd trimester of pregnancy (click here). She recovered. Report 15 June

778. Rehab, the wife of Altuf Shamsi, who had severe Covid gave birth by Casarean on 29 April, and died of Covid complications on 11 May, in India (click here). Report 14 June

777. Thais Ferreira de Lomes required ventilation for Covid and gave birth at 28 weeks at the Grajau Hospital in Sao Paulo in March (click here). That hospital has observed at least one pregnant woman with Covid each week in 2021. Mother and baby survived. Report 18 June

776. Vidya Justin (age 25) of Korampallam gave birth to triplets by Caesarean at 32 weeks, Thoothukudi Medical College Hospital, in India, on 30 May (click here). She had Covid-19 and HELLP syndrome with liver and kidney failure, and was treated in ICU. She and the babies recovered. Report 16 June

775. An unnamed woman with Covid gave birth to twins on 17 June in Cambodia (click here). Both babies are healthy as is the sick mother. Report 18 June.

774. An unnamed woman age 36 with Covid gave birth in Tacloban city in the Philippines on 17 June (click here). Mother and baby are doing fine. Report 18 June

14 June 2021

773. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 gave birth to twins at six months gestation at the Western Visayas Medical Center in Mandurriao district, the Philippines, on 9 June (click here). The twins died the same day. Report 14 June

772. Dana Sy, age 27, tested positive for Covid-19 when she gave birth in July 2020 at the Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center in Manila (click here). Her baby was separated from her for a period. Both recovered. Report 14 June

771. Smita Panda, age 28, a staff nurse at the Acharya Harihara Cancer hospital in Cuttack, Odisha, India, got Covid-19 at 9 months gestation and gave birth on 22 April (click here). Seven days later she died of Covid, and a little later her husband died too. The baby survived. Report 14 June

770. Playback singer Shreya Ghoshal gave birth on 22 May and got vaccinated on 14 June (click here). Report 14 June. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

13 June 2021

769. Actress, Adite Malik, gave birth in March and got vacccinated in Mumbai, in June (click here). Report 13 June. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

768. Jennifer Nash from California, contracted Covid at 24 weeks in March 2021, and delivered by Caesarean at 29 weeks on 3 May (click here). She was cared for at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and treated with ECMO. She came off the ECMO but remains in ICU. Report 13 June

767. Lindsay Bullock contracted Covid at 36 weeks and gave birth by Caesarean on 23 February at Yale New Haven Hospital (click here). She was ventilated for a week. Mother and baby recovered. Report 12 June

11 June 2021

766. Since May, 24 pregnant women with Covid have delivered at the District Hospital, Brandipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India (click here). Report 11 June

765. Nor Baizura Mohd Noordin contracted Covid in December 2020, and was admitted to ICU at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre, but not ventilated. She recovered, and gave birth two months later (click here). Report 10 June

764. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 was delivered by Caesarean on 10 June, at King George Hospital in Vizag, Andra Pradesh, India (click here). The mother had been on a ventilator for ten days and remains so. The baby is alive. According to the article, 28 pregnant women with Covid are currently in the same hopsital. Last month the figure was 90. Report 10 June

10 June 2021

763. April Mager contracted Covid-19 at just 4 weeks gestation and spent nine days in hospital (click here). She recovered but the pregnancy miscarried. Report 9 June

762. Natalia Worek, a nurse from Ontario, contracted Covid in the 3rd trimester, was delivered by Caesarean, and spent time in ICU (click here). Mother and baby both recovered. Report 9 June

9 June 2021

761. Shanetta Wilson contracted Covid in April at 6 months gestation, and after prolonged intensive care at George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC, died on 1 June (click here). She had not been vaccinated. Her baby had been delivered in May but had died age five days. Report 8 June

760. Dr Arfa Sajadin from West Bengal, contracted severe covid at 37 weeks, and required 10 days ventilation (click here). Mother and baby survived. Report 8 June.

759. KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Singapore vaccinated six pregnant women on June 8 (click here). They included Suzanna Farid Tang Shu Ling and Noriyah Abdul Rahman. Report 9 June. Vaccine in pregnancy news report.

758. Rebecca Benson from Maguiresbridge, Northern Ireland, gave birth at 26 weeks on Oct 14, 2020, and contracted covid in postnatally (click here). Report 8 June

8 June 2021

757. Dr Fatihah Shahrudin has severe Covid-19 and is being treated in ICU at the Sungai Buloh Hospital in Kuala Lumpur (click here). Her baby was delivered at 29 weeks. Report 7 June

756. Lucy Angel was vaccinated at 35 weeks gestation in May and has since given birth (click here). Natalie Wright decided against at 32 weeks. Report 7 June Vaccine in pregnancy news report

7 June 2021

755. Megan von Prittwitz from El Paso, has just given birth, and is currently being treated with ECMO in an Albuquerque hospital with Covid-related pneumonia (click here). Report 1 June

754. 225 women with Covid have given birth in Agartala Government Medical College, Tripura, India (click here). Of these, 198 were in the first wave, and 27 in the second. Report 3 June

753. Linzi Watkins, contracted severe Covid-19 at 21 weeks gestation (click here). She required four days ventilation at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. She recovered and gave birth normally on May 26. Report 1 June

752. Antonella, from Gioia Tauro, Italy, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 early in her pregnancy (click here). She remained asymptomatic and gave birth normally. She attributed this to the scapular of St. Dominic Savio. Report 6 June.

751. An unnamed woman with severe Covid successfully gave birth by Caesarean on 4 June, in Prey Veng province, Cambodia (click here). Report 7 June

750. Diptimayi Devi died of Covid on May 30, 2021, the day after giving birth at Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati Hospital, Brahmapur, India (click here). She was an Angwanwadi worker, a type of community health carer. Report 7 June

749. Jalpa Patel from Piplaj of Anand, India, died from Covid on April 26, 2021, the day after giving birth (click here). Report 7 June

4 June 2021

748. The rate of Covid is higher in the pregnant than non-pregnant population in Russia (click here). No numbers given. Report 24 January 2021

747. Over 390 pregnant women in Russia had contracted Covid-19 by April 2020 (click here). Report 27 April 2020

3 June 2021

746. Tina Wesley from Calgary, Canade, gave birth by Caesarean on 26 April while ventilated (click here). Report 2 June

745. Deeptimayee Devi died from Covid on 31 May, the day after giving birth at MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Bramapur, India (click here). Report 2 June

744. Briana Mike from Germantown, Maryland gave birth on 25 May after weeks on a ventilator at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore (click here). Report 3 June

1 June 2021

743. Amila Khatun had Covid-19 and gave birth at Biswanath Civil Hospital, Assam, India, on 31 May (click here). Report 1 June

742. An unnamed woman from Darsheth village in Palghar district, Maharashtra, India, tested negative but her baby tested positive (click here). Report 1 June

741. Ruchi Panchal had Covid-19 and died during delivery by Caesarean section on 11 May at Surat District hospital in Gujarat, India (click here). The baby survived. Report 1 June

29 May 2021

740. Laura Durcan was vaccinated during pregnancy and gave birth normally (click here). Report 29 May. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

739. Natalia Worek contracted Covid-19 at 32 weeks and was delivered by Caesarean at St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton, Ontraio (click here). Trisha Mayer contracted it at 34 weeks and also gave birth by Caesarean. A third unnamed infected woman also gave birth by Caesarean. Report 29 May

738. Lauren Mannell tested positive the day after giving birth by Caesarean on 3 Jan 2021 (click here). Her baby was severely hypoxaemix at birth, and required cooling, but recovered. Report 29 May

28 May 2021

737. About 100 women with Covid-19 have given birth at Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Hospital in Srinagar (click here). Report 27 May

736. An unnamed woman gave birth at SS Hospital in Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh on May 25. She tested negative but the baby tested positive (click here). Report 28 May

735. Taíssa Souza, from Vitória, Brazil, died from Covid-19 three weeks after giving birth (click here). Bárbara Cesar, from the same city was pregnant with twins when she contracted Covid-18. She required three weeks ventilation. The babies were delivered by Caesarean and healthy. Report 27 May

26 May 2021

734. An unnamed woman contracted Covid-19 and gave birth safely in Karimganj Covid Hospital, Assam, on 24 May (click here). Report 26 May

733. Nine women with Covid-19 gave birth at Niloufer hospital in Hyderabad (click here). The babies initially tested negative but later tested positive. The babies recovered. Report 26 May

732. Kate Mulholland was vaccinated (Pfizer) at 33 weeks (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 26 May. Vaccine in pregnancy news reports

731. Over 200 women with Covid-19 have given birth to healthy babies in the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir (click here). Eighty in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Hospital, Gandhi Nagar Jammu. More than 12 in the district hospital Bandipora in Kashmir Valley. Report 25 May

730. The unnamed wife of Shailan Tiwari, who suffered from idiopathic thrombocytopaenic purpura, contracted Covid-19 while pregnant and gave birth sucessfully at Queen Mary’s Hospital in King George’s Medical University, Lucknow (click here). Report 25 May

25 May 2021

729. Bala Mounika developed Covid-19 at 28 weeks and required ventilation and delivery at KIMS Cuddles hospital in Hyderabad (click here). Both mother and baby recovered. Report 23 May

728. An unnamed women in Mandya, Karnataka, India, died from Covid-19 five days after giving birth at Mandya District Hospital (click here). Report 22 May

727. Nerissa Rego contracted Covid-19 while pregnant (click here). She recovered at home. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 24 May

726. Fifty women with Covid-19 gave birth at Pt BD Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak, India in April and May (click here). 250 such women have given birth since the start of the pandemic. 130 by Caesarean. The newborn babies were separated from their mothers. Report 25 May

20 May 2021

725. An unspecified number of women with Covid-19 gave birth at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Florida (click here). They were separated from their babies. Report 20 May

724. 29 women with Covid gave birth at the NOAH birth complex in Cebu city in the Philippines (click here). Report 20 May

723. An unnamed pregnant woman from Allalabad died from Covid-19 at the People’s Medical College in Bhopal on 5 May (click here). Her baby survived. Report 20 May.

722. An unnamed woman in the souhern Brazilian city of Tubarao received the Coronavac vaccine during pregnancy (click here). She gave birth in April. Report 20 May Vaccine in pregnancy news report

721. Szilvia Bedo-Nagy contracted Covid late in 2020 (click here). She gave birth by Caesarean in Budapest, and required ventilation, and treatment with an artificial lung, presumably ECMO. She recovered. Report 20 May

18 May 2021

720. Adriely Carneiro de Santan,a from Brazil, died from Covid-19 in September 2020, shortly after giving birth (click here). Report 7 May 2021

719. An unnamed woman in Nagpur, India, was seriously ill with Covid-19 ten days after giving birth (click here). She died the following day. Report 17 April

718. Shamili, a police inspector from Karnataka, India, contracted Covid19 at 7 months and died (click here). Report 18 May

16 May 2021

717. On April 20 a 38-week gestation, hour-old, baby at Akanksha Hospital and Research Institute (AHRI) in Anand, India, developed multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) (click here). The mother tested negative but the baby had anti-Covid antibodies. The baby survived. Other similar cases are reported from SSG Hospital in Vadodara. Report 16 May

716. Sarladevi contracted Covid and gave birth at the ICU of Tilhar Medical College in India (click here). Two other unnamed women with Covid also gave birth in the ICU. One of their babies died. Report 15 May

15 May 2021

715. Chelsea Arnold got vaccinated while breast feeding her one-year-old daughter (click here). Report 11 May

714. Sruthy, a nurse in Dubai contracted covid while pregnant and suffered a miscarriage. Harsha Pushpan contracted Covid at 8 months, recovered and gave birth normally (click here). Report 12 May

713. Catharine Paules got vaccinated in pregnancy and gave birth normally (click here). Report 13 May Vaccine in pregnancy news report

712. An unnamed pregnant woman from Rio de Janeiro reportedly died from a haemorrhagic stroke following the AstraZeneca vaccine (click here). Report 12 May. Vaccine in pregnancy news report Update 4 November. See vaccine source 73 (click here).

711. Erika Loegering was vaccinated twice in pregnancy and gave birth to a healthy son (click here). Despite her husband and older son testing positive she remained negative. Report 14 May Vaccine in pregnancy news report

710. Jessica O’Connell received the COVID-19 vaccine while pregnant (click here). Report 11 May Vaccine in pregnancy news report

709. Dimple Arora Chawla died from Covid-19 at 7 months gestation (click here). Report 14 May

6 May 2021

708. NBC correspondent Jo Ling Kent got vaccinated on 1 April and gave birth in late April (click here). Report 5 May. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

707. Serena Torres contracted Covid-19 while pregnant and required 37 days of ECMO. On 20 Oct 2020, at 32 weeks, she gave birth by Caesarean at Westchester Medical Center in New York State (click here). She recovered. Report 6 May

706. An unnamed woman, who tested positive, gave birth at Teuk Thla Health Center in Sen Sok district, Phnom Penh, on 4 May (click here). Report 6 May

705. Dani Al-Mansouri, from Utah, got her 2nd dose of the Pfizer vaccine at 31 weeks. Yándary Chatwin, got her 1st dose of Moderna at 13 weeks (click here). Report 5 May. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

4 May 2021

704. The unnamed partner of Shyam Sundar tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and has been isolated after giving birth at Government Rajindra Hospital in Patiala, India (click here). Report 3 May

703. Tanya August-Hanson a member of the Manx (Isle of Man) Legislative Council was vaccinated against covid at 39 weeks gestation (click here). She gave birth last weekend. Report 4 May Vaccine in pregnancy news report

702. This article reports the search for breast milk donors for the babies of two unnamed women who died of Covid-19 (click here). One mother died in Delhi last week, and the other in Lucknow recently. Report 4 May

701. By 4 May 2021, 1,001 SARS-CoV-2 infected mothers had given birth at Nair hospital in Mumbai (click here). They had 1,023 babies, including a set of triplets and 19 pairs of twins. There were 599 normal births and 402 caesareans. Report 4 May

700. An unnamed pregnant woman died from Covid-19 in Varaždin maternity hospital in Croatia (click here). Report 4 May. HT @DanielaDrandic Update 5 May. She was delivered by Caesarean. Baby’s birthweight 2,500g.

699. Mikaely Karoline Souza contracted Covid-19 at 7 months gestation, and died undelivered in the Emergency Care Unit in Sinop, in Matto Grosso, Brazil on 3 May (click here). Report 3 May

698. Maria Laura Prucoli, contracted Covid and was delivered by Caesarean at Saracuruna Hospital, in Duque de Caxias, in Baixa Fluminense, Brazil (click here). She died on 18 April. The baby tested positive but survived. Report 18 April

697. Letícia Aparecida Gomes from Maricá, Brazil, contracted Covid-19 while pregnant and spent a week in ICU. She recovered and the pregnancy is ongoing (click here). Report 4 May

3 May 2021

696. In Alberta, 85 to 95 unnamed pregnant women tested positive within one week (click here). On 30 April three COVID-19 pregnant patients were admitted to one hospital in Calgary. In the same week in Alberta two pregnant patients went to the ICU, and 22 visited the emergency room. Report 1 May

1 May 2021

695. Nair hospital, one of the largest treating pregnant women with Covid-19 in Mumbai has already recorded 26 maternal Covid deaths in 2021, compared with 12 between April and December 2020 (click here). Report 1 May

694. This opinion piece in the South China Morning Post includes the first newspaper report of a maternal death in China; an unnamed “pregnant woman from the rural area in Huanggang, Hubei province, who died of Covid-19 complications after spending more than a week in the intensive care unit at the Wuhan University South Central Hospital” (click here). The case is from early 2020. See also study 383 (click here) which also mentions a maternal death from Wuhan in the supplementary files. Report 1 May

693. The unnamed, five month pregnant, wife of Kolkata journalist, Sujit Nath, contracted Covid-19 on 10 April (click here). She was treated at home with steroids, oxygen saturation monitoring, and home oxygen. She recovered and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 30 April

692. Christina Jones from South Wales contracted Covid-19 on February 18 (click here). She required nine days ventilation, during which her baby was delivered by Caesarean at 31 weeks, on 2 March. Both recovered. Report 1 May.

691. Laura Hix, from Tulsa, USA, contracted severe Covid-19 while pregnant (click here). She required ventilation and on 30 April, at 28 weeks, was delivered by Caesarean. Report 1 May

690. The unnamed wife of Rafael Córdova from Peru contracted Cobid-19 and gave birth to twins prematurely (click here). Both twins died. Report 29 April.

30 April 2021

689. Shaneen Robinson-Desjarlais from Winnipeg contracted Covid, six days after giving birth (click here). Her baby was also infected. Report 29 April.

29 April 2021

688. Hari Teja, a television actress from India, contracted Covid-19 in late pregnancy (click here). The baby was born by Caesarean on 5th April, not infected, but was isolated from her for a week. Report 29 April

687. Between January and April 2021 at least 433 pregnant, or post-partum women died from covid-19 in Brazil (click here). Report 28 April 2021

686. Four unnamed unvaccinated pregnant women with Covid-19 are currently in intensive care in Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA (click here). In the same article a doctor reports that a small number (possibly only one) pregnant women have died from Covid-19 in Grand Rapids. Report 29 April

28 April 2021 HT Branka Firulovic and Christoph Brezinka for report 683

685. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 delivered twins at a coronavirus community health centre in Chandausi in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh on 27 April (click here). Report 28 April

684. Fatma Yıldız contracted Covid-19 in the second trimester of her pregnancy (click here). She was in a coma for 12 days, and required 3 weeks intensive care at Gaziantep University Hospital. The pregnancy is ongoing and she was discharged from hospital on 27 April. Report 27 April

683. An unnamed woman died from Covid-19 on 16 April two days after giving birth by Caesarean at the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG) in Podgorica (click here). The report states that this is the first maternal death among 52 women with Kovid who gave birth in the previous four and a half months in Montenegro. Report 19 April

27 April 2021 HT Branka Firulovic and Christoph Brezinka for reports 675-679

682. Misbah, the wife of Ali Syed, from Saskatchewan, Canada, contracted Covid-19 during her pregnancy (click here). She gave birth safely, but her husband died of Covid-19. Report 26 April

681. Isabel Castillo was vaccinated while pregnant on 6 April, in Santiago, Chile (click here). Report 26 April. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

680. Theresa Potenza contracted Covid-19 in November 2020, at 34 weeks gestation (click here). She was nursed at home and gave birth safely at Ospedale Gemelli in Rome at about 38 weeks. Report 27 April

679. A newborn baby died of Covid-19 age 37 days, at Hagia Sophia hospital in Greece (click here, here or here). Reports 8 March and 20 April

678. An unnamed woman with Covid-19, from Trstenik, gave birth normally in Kraljevo Serbia (click here or here). The baby tested positive and died 10 days later from Corona infection. Report 19 April.

677. A unnamed 24-year-old pregnant woman died on 9 April in the University Clinical Center in Kosovo as a result of covid-19 (click here). The report also states that “Since the beginning of the pandemic, several pregnant women and midwives with kovid 19 have died in Kosovo”. Another unnamed 41 year old woman died in the same clinic on 23 March after giving birth at 31 weeks. Report 9 April

676. An unnamed pregnant woman died from Covid-19 died in Kosovo on 13 April (click here). Report 16 April

675. An unnamed Covid-positive pregnant woman died in Djakovica, Kosovo, on April 21.(click here). Report 21 April.

674. An unnamed woman died from Covid-19 on 26 April shortly after giving birth in Kanpur, India (click here). In Hindi. Report 26 April.

673. An unnamed woman in Kerala died from Covid-19 five days after giving birth (click here). In Malam. Report 27 April

672. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 gave birth safely in Malkangiri district headquarters hospital, in India, on 22 April (click here). Report 27 April

671. Prerna Shrestha got the Pfizer-mRNA vaccine in February when she was pregnant and later gave birth safely (click here). Report 26 April Vaccine in pregnancy news report

25 April 2021

670. Faiza Khan contracted Covid-19 shortly after giving birth in New Delhi (click here). Report 24 April

669. Cara Kirschner Estrada contracted Covid at seven months gestation and was delivered by Caesarean (click here). Her baby is doing well, but she is seriously ill on life support. Report 25 April

24 April 2021

668. Three unnamed pregnant women with Covid-19 are currently being treated in intensive care in Ireland (click here). Report 19 April

667. Yolanda Roberson, from Michigan, who had undergone a liver transplant in 2013 due to autoimmune hepatitis, and was also diabetic, contracted Covid-19 while pregnant on 24 December (click here). She receive monoclonal antibody treatment, and recovered. Report 22 April.

666. Alexa Forbes tested positive after preterm rupture of membranes at 34 weeks (click here). She later developed symptoms. Her baby was not infected. Report 21 April

665. Liz York got vaccinated during pregnancy, and had a Caesarean at 33 weeks (click here). Report 10 April. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

664. Alison Rose tested positive in pregnancy (click here). Report 23 April

22 April 2021

663. Dakota Lee Vest Wright contracted Covid-19 and gave birth by Caesarean at 30 weeks on 20 April (click here). She is currently on ECMO at the University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital. She had decided not to be vaccinated because she was pregnant. Report 21 April Vaccine in pregnancy news report

662. Cara Kirschner-Estrada contracted Covid-19 and gave birth by Caesarean at 28 weeks (click here). She is currently on ECMO at Royal Oak Beaumont hospital in Michigan. Report 22 April

21 April 2021

661. An unnamed woman from Gujarat, India, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy and gave birth on 1 April (click here). Her baby contracted Covid-19 and died aged 15 days. Report 16 April

660. K Rohini contracted Covid-19 in pregnancy and died on 15 April in a Karimnagar private hospital in India (click here). Report 18 April

659. Dr Stephanie Chen got vaccinated while pregnant (click here). Report 26 March. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

658. Danika Jorgensen-Skakum contracted Covid-19 in December 2020, early in her pregnancy (click here). On 19 April, at 29 weeks gestation, she got a first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Report 19 April. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

20 April 2021

657. An unnamed woman with severe Covid-19 gave birth normally at a special Covid ICU set up in an art gallery in Kalyan town of Maharashtra’s Thane district in India on 19 April (click here). Mother and baby are recovering. Report 20 April

656. An unnamed woman from Haryana, with Covid-19 gave birth to an infected child at Ayushman Bhav hospital in Haryana, India on 15 April (click here). Report 16 April.

655. A newborn baby from Kragujevac, Bosnia who was infected with Covid-19 died on 19 April, aged 9 days (click here). The mother’s Covid status and health was not reported. Report 19 April. HT Daniela Drandic @DanielaDrandic

18 April 2021

654. Rifat Sultana, a TV journalist in Dhaka, Bangladesh, contracted Covid-19 and was delivered by Caesarean on 15 April (click here). She died the following day. Report 17 April.

17 April 2021

653. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 was delivered by Caesarean at Ghai Hospital in Jalandhar, India on 14 April (click here). Report 17 April

652. An unnamed woman in Canada contracted Covid-19 and had to be delivered by Caesarean (click here). Another unnamed pregnant woman is currently on a ventilator in a Toronto ICU. Report 16 April.

16 April 2021

651. Six stillbirths and one miscarriage caused by Covid-19 in Ireland (click here). May include four from news report 603. Report 13 April.

650. A pregnant woman identified only as Megan contracted severe covid-19 towards the end of her pregnancy (click here). She required treatment in ICU but recovered. There are currently five pregnant women with Covid in one Toronto ICU and two in one McMaster ICU. Report 14 April

649. Two pregnant women in Hong Kong who had received BioNTech vaccine suffer miscarriages (click here). Report 14 April. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

15 April 2021 – two reports of maternal death from Bulgaria and five from Romania added. H/T Dr Branka Firulovic and Dr Christoph Brezinka

648. An unnamed pregnant woman died of Covid-19 at 20 weeks gestation, at Bega Maternity Hospital in Timisoara in March (click here). 14 other pregnant women infected with Covid-19, were in the same hospital, of whom three were in intensive care. Report 31 March

647. An unnamed 32-year old nurse from Buzäu with Covid-19 was delivered by Caesarean at Bucur Maternity Hospital in Bucarest (click here). She died a few days later. Report 5 January

646. Mirela Paiu contracted Covid-19 and was delivered by Caesarean at 35 weeks at Galati Hospital in Romania (click here) She died two days later. Report 14 December

645. An unnamed woman with Covid was delivered by caesarean at Timisioara hospital at 6 months gestation. The baby survived but the mother died two weeks later (click here). Report 9 December

644. An unnamed 34-year-old pregnant woman, with Covid, died at the “Bega” Maternity Hospital in Timişoara, Romania in March (click here). There are two other pregnant women with Covid in the same hospital. Report 31 March

643. A 32-years old pregnant woman in Bulgaria died of Covid on 5 March (click here). Report 5 March

642. An unnamed pregnant woman with coronavirus died at Blagoevgrad hospital in Bulgaria on 13 March (click here). There is another pregnant woman recovering from Covid in the same hospital. Report 13 March

13 April 2021

641. Liz Essley Whyte, a journalist, received the Pfizer vaccine in April while pregnant (click here). Report 12 April. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

640. Actor Sophie Rundle, BBC dramas Peaky Blinders and Gentleman Jack, contracted Covid-19 in December 2020. She recovered and gave birth over the Easter weekend (click here). Report 12 April

639. Liz Clim contracted Covid-19 while pregnant, and gave birth by Caesarean at 28 weeks at Elena Doamna Maternity Hospital in Romania (click here). Following the birth she was transferred to the Emergency Clinical Hospital “Saint Spiridon” where she died. Her baby tested negative but also died. Report 9 April.

638. Three unnamed women with Covid-19 gave birth naturally in a new unit at Makarios hospital in Cyprus (click here). Previously the hospital had insisted that all affected women had to deliver by Caesarean, due to problems with the hospital’s ventilation system. Report 12 April

9 April 2021

637. Hundreds of pregnant women were vaccinated against Covid-19 at a special clinic at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburg, on 8 April (click here). Meg Graham and Breawna Taylor were named in the report. Report 9 April. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

636. Asha Vanshiv contracted Covid-19 and gave birth to twins by Caesarean on 5 April, at YCM Hospital in Pune, India (click here). She died the following day. The twins are doing fine. Report 9 April

635. Rhiannon Lane contracted Covid-19 and gave birth by Caesarean on March 21 at Texoma Medical Center in Texas (click here). Shortly afterwards her health deteriorated, she required ventilation and spent 18 days in ITU. She is recovering. report 9 April

7 April 2021

634. Charlene Jones contracted Covid-19 during her pregnancy and gave birth by Caesarean on 23rd December (click here). Two days post natally she required intubation and ventilation. She recovered. Report 7 April

633. An unnamed woman with severe Covid-19 gave birth at 29 weeks while intubated and ventillted at Attikon Hospital in Athens, Greece (click here). The date of the delivery is not reported. Report 7 April.

6 April 2021

632. Zeynep Aslı Kaplan received the CoronaVac vaccine (also known as Sinovac COVID-19) in the 29th and 33rd weeks of her pregnancy, and gave birth at 38 weeks (click here). Report 6 April. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

2 April 2021

631. Three unnamed women at Can Misses hospital in Ibiza have been vaccinated in pregnancy and one has given birth to a baby with antibodies (click here). Report 2nd April Vaccine in pregnancy news report

30 March 2021

631. Mbali Mbatha contracted Covid-19 and was delivered by caesarean at 30 weeks on 1 December at Netcare Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg (click here). She was treated with ventilation, ECMO and eventually a lung transplant. She and the baby recovered. Report 30 March.

630. Yumi Palmer contracted Covid-19 in March 2020, just before she gave birth (click here). Report 30 March 2021.

28 March 2021

629. An unnamed 21-year-old Jordanian women died of Covid-19, on 23 March, eight days after giving birth at Prince Hamzah hospital, Ru’a Nsour (click here). Report 28 March.

628. Ann-Marie Williams, from Cornwall, who requires parenteral feeding for a mystery illness, gave birth to twins in January 2021 and contracted Covid-19 soon afterwards (click here). She recovered. Report 27 March.

27 March 2021 (including update on reports 289 and 601)

627. Haley Saunders got the Moderna vaccine, with her second dose at 9 months gestation (click here). She gave birth Feb. 24 at Southwest Memorial Hospital in Colorado. Report 23 March. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

626. Dr Maggie Burke, from Bethesda, Maryland, received the Pfizer vaccine at 27 and 30 weeks gestation, and gave birth on 13 March (click here). The baby was healthy and had antibodies. Report 25 March. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

21 March 2021

625. Asarwa Civil Hospital, Ahmedebad, India has cared for 200 births to Covid-19 positive women (click here). They included Radihika Parihar, Hiral Shah, Ritu Yadav, and Asha Patel, all of whom delivered healthy babies. Report 21 March

624.  Louise Tranham from Margate contracted Covid-19 in November at 26 weeks gestation (click here). Her baby died in utero at 27 weeks and 5 days. Report 21 March.

623. Kim Murray, wife of tennis player Andy, tested positive late in her fourth pregnancy (click here). She gave birth normally in early March, and the baby is healthy. Report 21 March.

18 March 2021 (including update on report 548)

622. Nisa Celik received the Astra Zeneca vaccine at 11 weeks gestation (click here). She had short term side effects. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 17 March. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

621. By October 31, 2020, about 1,835 Covid-positive pregnant women had given birth in the state of Kerala, India (click here). 245 of their babies had tested Covid positive. Report 18 March

620. Jennifer Pinedo contracted Covid-19 at 36 months [sic] gestation (click here). Note – presumably 36 weeks. She recovered and gave birth to a healthy daughter. Erin Arnst, from Fowlerville, got the vaccine at six months. Her pregnancy is ongoing. Report 18 March. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

17 March 2021

619. About 20% of women presenting in labour to Port Moresby General Hospital in Papua New Guinea have symptoms of Covid-19 (click here). Of them, about one-third (four to five women a day) test positive. Report 16 March

16 March 2021

618. Michelle Melton, got the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at 35 weeks gestation at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville (click here). Report 16 March Vaccine in pregnancy news report

617. Shuruq Jubran from Jisr az-Zarqa in Israel contracted Covid-19 and was treated at Hadera’s Hillel Yaffe Medical Center (click here). She died on 15 March, three weeks after giving birth. Her sister, Amna Kahwaji, had died 10 days earlier, a week after giving birth, also from Covid-19. Report 16 March.

616. Since the beginning of February, three unnamed pregnant women aged 22, 27, and 32 years have died from Covid-19 in Tirana, Albania (click here). Another three pregnant women, one of whom is critically ill and intubated, are currently hospitalized with the disease. Report 15 March.

615. Nayeli Rodulfo-Zayas, a doctor from San Antonio, treating Covid-19 patients had the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination in December, the 2nd dose in January, and gave birth to a healthy boy on 28 January (click here). Report 15 March. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

614. Carrie-Anne Osborne, from Hartlepool, UK, contracted Covid-19 at 33 weeks and gave birth on 29 December (click here). She spent four weeks in ITU but recovered. Report 16 March.

15 March 2021

613. Nair Hospital, Mumbai has cared for over 1,100 Covid-positive expectant mothers, of whom 764 have given birth and 45 babies have been infected (click here). The birth of Tanushri Bhanage is described in detail. Report 15 March

612. Alexia Khammanivong contracted Covid-19, at 30 weeks, required ventilation and ECMO, and gave birth by Caesarean (click here). Her baby died of complications of prematurity, but she recovered. Report 15 March.

14 March 2021

611. Arpana Dalvi, Prachi Kunal Salgia, and Ritika Khatri, all contracted Covid-19 while pregnant, and gave birth in 2020, in India (click here). Report 14 March

610. Three unnamed women with Covid-19 who required treatment with ECMO in Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikvah are recovering (click here). The article also states that there are 41 pregnant or recently pregnant women hospitalised with Covid-19 in Israel. Report 13 March

13 March 2021

609. Yvett Camacho from Fontana in California, contracted Covid-19 at 30 weeks (click here). She was delivered by Caesarean and, from 21 to 31 January, was treated with ECMO at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Mother and baby recovered. Report 12 March.

11 March 2021

608. Mel Wilson, from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, got vaccinated at 28 weeks (click here). She is due in March. Report 11 March. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

607. Maidi Martínez from Cuba contracted severe Covid-19 and gave birth by Caesarean at 35 weeks at Manuel Fajardo Military Hospital (click here). Mother and baby recovered. Report 10 March

7 March 2021

606. Rachael Mutch tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and gave birth at term at Ipswich Hospital on Feb 12 (click here). Report 6 March

6 March 2021

605. Mary Ann Brussels contracted Covid-19 at 34 weeks in April 2020 (click here). She gave birth by Caesarean at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and later required ventilation. Both mother and baby recovered. Report 5 March

604. An unnamed women with Covid-19 gave birth on 6 March by Caesarean section at the General Hospital of Corfu (click here). Mother and baby are in good health. Report 6 March

4 March 2021

603. Four unnamed women with mild or moderate Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland experienced a stillbirth in January and February 2021 (click here). Report 4 March.

602. Allison Goldfarb tested positive for Covid in late pregnancy and in January 2021 gave birth in a car on the way to hospital in New York (click here). Report 3 March.

601. Victoria Gallardo from Cypress, Texas, contracted Covid-19 about 11 days after giving birth (click here). She is now in a coma in an ITU in Texas. Report 4 March. Update 27 March (click here). She died on 16 March.

2 March 2021

600. An unnamed women with Covid-19, who had recently given birth, and was being cared for in the Covid care hospital at Lal Chowk, in Kalyan, near Mumbai, was allegedly sexually assaulted on 1st March (click here). Report 2 March

599. Witney Carson, a celebrity dancer, had Covid-19 when her son was born by 2nd stage Caesarean in January (click here). Report 1 March.

598. Ellie Wright from Walsall contracted Covid-19 at 30 weeks and gave birth by Caesarean on 12 January (click here). She required three weeks ventilation and remains in hospital. The baby has gone home. Report 1 March.

28 Feb 2021

597. After mentioning the woman in report 588, this report states that 50 pregnant are currently hospitalised in Israel with Covid-19 (click here). Report 27 February

596. An unnamed woman who had contracted Covid-19 at 25 weeks, experienced a stillbirth at 36 weeks (click here). She was cared for at Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel. Report 27 February

27 Feb 2021

595. Joanna Jimenez contracted Covid-19 and gave birth on Feb. 13 (click here). She died a few days later. Report 27 February.

594. An unnamed pregnant woman from Bhopal, India, told CNN she had received the first injection Covaxin before being turned away for the second dose due to her pregnancy (click here). Report 26 February Vaccine in pregnancy news report

593. MaElena Barcenas from  Detroit contracted Covid-19 in March 2020 at 30 weeks and required delivery by Caesarean and 33 days ventilation.  Russell Powell, from Charleston, South Carolina, contracted Covid-19 at 30 weeks and went into preterm labour at 33 weeks. (Click here for their stories.) The story of report 293 is included. Report 26 February

25 Feb 2021

592. An unnamed woman had severe Covid-19 at 32 weeks, and was delivered by Caesarean in January (click here). Following ECMO treatment she is now in a coma in Leicester Royal Infirmary, her chance of survival is slim, and a judge has ruled that that her doctors can lawfully stop providing life-support treatment. Report 21 February.

21 Feb 2021

591. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 gave birth in an ambulance on her way to hospital in the northern Malappuram district of Kerala (click here). Mother and baby are doing well. This is said to be the third report of Covid positive women giving birth in an ambulance in Kerala. Report 21 February

590. Olivia Buxton, from West London, tested positive for Covid-19 at 36 weeks gestation (click here). She gave birth normally on Jan 24 at 39 weeks. Her baby Jude was healthy.  Report 21 February.

589. Catherine Mezzacappa, a doctor, got vaccinated while pregnant (click here). She registered with the CDC V-safe phone app. Report 19 February. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

588. Osnat Ben-Shitrit from Jerusalem contracted Covid-19 at 30 weeks gestation and died (click here). Her baby delivered by Caesarean died too. Report 21 February. She had not been vaccinated (click here). Update 23 February Vaccine in pregnancy news report

20 Feb 2021

587. Ashley Wadley, from Oregon, contracted mild Covid-19 at 31 weeks gestation (click here). She stayed home. Her baby was born via Caesaren 4 days later on Jan 15. He tested positive and died on 17 Jan. Report 19 February

17 Feb 2021

586. Dr. Jane Martin, got her COVID-19 vaccine while pregnant with her third child (click here). The baby was born healthy. Report 17 February. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

585. Olivia Hall had symptoms of Covid-19 early in the pandemic but was not tested. She gave birth by Caesarean in Southmead hospital, Bristol on 25 March (click here). Report 17 February

584. Three unnamed women with Covid-19 have given birth to stillborn babies in Assuta Hospital in Ashdod, Isreal, according to the head of infectious diseases there, Dr Tal Brosh (click here). Report 16 February

16 Feb 2021

583. Emma Bullen, from Tiverton, contracted Covid-19 at 39 weeks and gave birth by Caesarean at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (click here). Both recovered. Report 15 February

15 Feb 2021

582. Twelve pregnant women are reportedly critically ill with Covid-19 in Israel (click here). Details were given for two. One on a ventilator in Kaplan hospital in Rehovot, and another seriously ill at 13 weeks gestation in an unnamed hospital. Report 15 February.

581. Chaya Mehlman, Joelle Harari-Chadow, and another 250 pregnant women received Covid-19 vaccination at the Center for Health Education, Medicine and Dentistry, in Lakewood, New Jersey, between 12 and 14 February (click here). Report 15 February. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

13 Feb 2021

580. Bridget Klingenberg, from Covenant, contracted COVID-19 at 27 weeks gestation (click here). She is currently in ICU at the University of Michigan and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 12 February.

579. Bat Sheva Baruch, from Jerusalem, Israel, contracted COVID-19 at 31 weeks gestation (click here). She required treatment in ICU and support with breathing, but the pregnancy continued and is ongoing. Report 12 February.

11 Feb 2021

578. Zarina Rose from Las Vegas contracted Covid-19 at 32 weeks gestation (click here). Labour was induced but she died shortly after birth. The baby survived. Report 11 February

9 Feb 2021

577. Two unnamed pregnant women are seriously ill with Covid-19 at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Israel (click here). One was delivered at 34 weeks and one at 37 weeks, both by Caesarean. Report 7 February.

576. Rose Jimmichen from Scunthorpe, UK, contracted severe Covid-19 in pregnancy (click here). She was delivered by Caesarean at 29 weeks. Report 2 February

575. Tori Howell from the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, UK, contracted Covid-19 at 22 weeks (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 5 February.

574. An unnamed 30 year old resident of Lakewod, New Jersey, contracted Covid-19 while pregnant (click here). Report 8 February.

7 Feb 2021

573. Rachel McCartney, from Aldershot, who was pregnant with twins, had two inconclusive Covid-19 tests and was induced at 34 weeks at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey (click here). Report 7 February.

6 Feb 2021

572. Veronica Bernal from Arizona died of Covid-19 shortly after giving birth to twins (click here for 6 Feb google search on which she appears). No primary reports accessible in Europe due to data protection issues. Report 6 February. 10 Feb update. Click here for a report available in Europe.

571. Maggie Romano got vaccinated at 15 weeks gestation and Sarah Scherschel at 31 weeks (click here). Report 5 February. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

570. Paula Zion contracted severe Covid-19 at 17 weeks gestation, and required ventilation. She recovered and gave birth to a healthy boy on 4 February at the Royal Bolton Hospital (click here). Report 5 February.

569. Becky Regan, from Blyth, Northumberland died of Covid-19 on Feb 1st, shortly after giving birth by Caesarean at 31 weeks gestation (click here). Report 5 February

4 Feb 2021

568. Anthony Fauci says that about 10,000 pregnant women have received Covid-19 vaccinations in the USA and no “red flags” have been noted (click here). Report 1 February. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

3 Feb 2021

567. Christelle Berrington from Durban, South Africa, contracted Covid-19 at 35 weeks (click here). The baby delivered and she recovered. Report 25 January

1 Feb 2021

566. Maria Murillo, from Oklahoma City, contracted Covid-19 in July, at 25 weeks gestation (click here). The baby was delivered by Caesarean, and the mother required ventilation and a month in ITU. Both survived, although the baby remains in neonatal intensive care. Report 1 February. Update 11 July. The baby is still in intensive care (click here). It appears she cannot be weaned off the ventilator. Report 11 July

565. Anischa Morris, from Cape Town, contracted Covid-19 at 34 weeks in early December (click here). Her baby was delivered by Caesarean section at Groote Schuur Hospital, and went home on Dec 23rd. But Anischa’s condition deteriorated, and she died on 14 January. Report 1 February

564. Kelsey Townsend, from Madison, Wisconsin, contracted Covid-19 in October (click here). She gave birth on Nov 4th and required prolonged ventilation and ECMO at UW Health, University Hospital Wisconsin. At one point she was considered for a lung transplant, but this was not necessary. She left ICU mid January, and went home on 27 January. Report 1 February

563. Samantha Spicer, from Rushden, Northamptonshire, contracted Covid-19 at 12 weeks gestation (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 1 February.

562. Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson, who is currently pregnant with her second baby, tested positive for COVID-19 early in her second pregnancy (click here). The baby is due in the summer. Report 1 February

30 Jan 2021

561. Kailtin Bolan a registered nurse at Fresenius, New York, got vaccinated against Covid-19 while pregnant (click here). Report 29 January. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

560. An unnamed pregnant woman is pictured receiving the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine in Tel Aviv on January 23, 2021 (click here). Report 30 January. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

559. Farheen Raza, a radio personality from Flower Mound, Texas, contracted COVID-19 in April 2020. but did not fully recover (click here). In September she conceived and has continued to have post Covid symptoms through the first four months of her pregnancy. Report 30 January.

28 Jan 2021

558. Eva Gicain, from Basildon, contracted Covid-19 at 34 weeks gestation in late October (click here). She required ventilation, and ECMO for three weeks, but recovered. Report 28 January

557. Natalie Keller from Oklahoma contracted Covid-19 and was delivered by Caesarean (click here). Report 26 January

556. Reality TV star Lauren Goodger contracted Covid-19 in October, early in her pregnancy (click here). The pregnancy is continuing and she is due to give birth in July. Report 26 January

555. Visibly pregnant 34-year-old Narkis received her coronavirus vaccine in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2021 (click here). Report 27 January. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

554. Elsa Larkins contracted Covid-19 and required ventilation and preterm caesarean birth at Kingston Hospital, London on 5 Jan (click here). She remains in intensive care. Report 22 January. Update 1 February, mother & baby recovered (click here).

25 Jan 2021

553. Mandy Nguyen contracted Covid-19 at 32 weeks gestation and gave birth on 6 April 2020 by Caesarean section at the Royal London Hospital (click here). She required 3 weeks of ECMO support, but survived. Report 25 January

24 Jan 2021

552. Pregnant Houston city council member, Abbie Kamin received the Covid-19 vaccine recently (click here). The article also reports Stephanie Humbert, division manager of the health department’s nurse family partnership program as saying that about 17 pregnant women have also received the vaccine. Report 24 January. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

551. An unnamed 28-year-old woman from Dhamtari district gave birth to triplets in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India on 18 october 2020 (click here). Report 30 October.

23 Jan 2021

550. Ashley Bennett from South Carolina, died of Covid-19 on Jan 8, a week after giving birth by Caesarean to her 10th child (click here). Report 22 January.

549. Courtney Sewell from Oldham contracted coronavirus at 35 weeks and gave birth at St Mary’s Manchester (click here). Mother and baby are well. Report 23 January

20 Jan 2021

548. Jackie Dennis from Michigan contracted Covid-19 in November, and birth was induced on November 27th (click here). She was placed on a ventilator at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital on Dec. 5th and later transferred to another hospital where she required ECMO for a month. On 16 January she received a lung transplant. Report 19 January. Update 18 March (click here). She has recovered and been discharged home without oxygen. Update report 17 March.

547. Sameera Khan contracted Covid-19 in early January and required ventilation, and delivery by Caesarean, at the Royal London Hospital (click here). At the time of the report, she remained seriously ill. The baby was stable. Report 20 January. Update (click here). She required two months ventilation but survived, although she still requires a wheelchair. Her baby also survived. Update 18 August 2021

546. Leslie Shaw, from California, contracted Covid-19 in December 2020, and was delivered by Caesarean (click here). She died two weeks after birth. The baby survived. Report 18 January.

19 Jan 2021

545. Fatima Mohammed, from Bahrain, was infected early in her pregnancy (click here). No further details. Report 19 January

544. 750 pregnant women with Covid-19 have been cared for at the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Government Hospital for Women and Children, Egmore, Chennai, India (click here). Report 19 January.

543. Katharine McMurray, from Oro Valley in Tucson, Arizona, contracted Covid-19 at the end of June 2020 and was delivered by Caesarean at 31 weeks (click here). Mother and baby survived. Report 18 January.

542. An unnamed woman with Covid-19, from Pazardzhik in Bulgaria, gave birth by Caesarean on 18 Jan (click here). Report 19 January

541. There are currently ten pregnant women hospitalised with severe Covid-19 in Israel (click here). They include four in Mayanei HaYeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak, and one transferred from Laniado hospital in Netanya to Beilinson hospital in Petah Tikvah and ventilated. The Laniado Hospital is also treating another woman with COVID-19 who was placed on a ventilator after delivery (for details of this latter case click here). On 17 Jan a baby delivered to a mother with COVID-19 died at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Report 19 January. Some of the women are named here. Report 19 January

17 Jan 2021

540. Heli Prizant contracted Covid-19 in the third trimester (click here). She gave birth by Caesarean at Sheba Medical Centre in Israel and her baby was isolated from her. Both recovered. Report 16 January

14 Jan 2021

539. Taylor Kern from Mt. Washington, Kentucky, contracted Covid-19 at nine months gestation (click here). She required delivery by Caesarean, ventilation and 9 days treatment with ECMO. She recovered. Report 14 January

538. Nosipho Nkantini, from Eerste River in Cape Town, South Africa, contracted Covid-19 in early December (click here). She required ventilation and her baby was delivered by Caesarean on 17 December at 25 weeks. Both survived. Report 14 January.

537. Sam Hicks, from Bristol, UK, contracted Covid-19 in November and gave birth on 11 January (click here). Report 14 January.

536. Ashleigh Shirajudin, from Rhos-on-Sea, Wales, contracted Covid-19 at the end of her pregnancy with triplets (click here). She gave birth by Caesarean and all three babies were fine. Report 14 January.

535. Three doctors, Elizabeth Espinal at 20 weeks, Jackie Parchem gestation not reported, and Elaina Preston at 11-weeks received the Covid-19 vaccine (type not specified) while pregnant (click here). Report 13 January. Vaccine in pregnancy news report

534. Dr Tsion Firew contracted Covid-19 early in her pregnancy and recovered (click here).  On 24 December, at 27 weeks gestation she received the first dose of either the BioNTech/Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. 2nd dose 13 January. Report 13 January Vaccine in pregnancy news report

12 Jan 2021

533. Up to 8 January, 104 pregnant women had contracted Covid-19 in Cuba but none died (click here). There were also 17 postpartum cases, and two associated with ectopic pregnancy. The first report from Cuba. Source the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). Report 11 January.

532. Joy-Anna Duggar, a US TV personality, contracted Covid-19 at some stage in her pregnancy and gave birth to a healthy baby in August 2020 (click here). Report 11 January.

531. Of 192 births to Covid positive women at Sir Jamshedji Jeejeebhoy Hospital in Mumbai, India, no mothers have died and no babies tested positive (click here). This hospital has not previously reported cases. Report 12 Jan.

11 Jan 2021

530.  Veronica Guevara-Giron from Southland, Los Angeles, contracted Covid-19 at 34-weeks gestation (click here).  Despite ventilation, she died on 7 January. Her baby was delivered by Casearan at 35 weeks, and is OK. Report 10 January.

529. Steph Almond, from Manchester, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in labour (click here). She gave birth normally.  Report 10 June.

528. Revathi Pentapati was pregnant with twins when she contracted Covid-19 at about 36 weeks gestation (click here). She required ventilation and the twins were delivered by Caesarean at Milton Keynes Hospital in UK. Mother and babies are now recovering. She must be the previously unnamed woman in report 522. Report 11 January.

527. Aquarius Bunch contracted Covid-19 and was treated with ECMO at the University of Iowa hospitals in May 2020 (click here). This video clip (click here) shows her mobilising on ECMO. She recovered and was discharged on May 10th with the pregnancy ongoing. She gave birth to a healthy baby on 12 Aug. Report 14 August.

9 Jan 2021

526. María de Jesús Maroquín Hernández, from Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico, contracted Covid-19 at 36 weeks gestation and was treated Acapulco General Hospital (click here). She had a girl and both recovered. The same report also describes Grecia Denise Espinosa who tested positive for the coronavirus at the National Institute for Perinatology in Mexico City, and gave birth to twins by cesarean. Again mother and babies recovered. Report 22 December.

525. Jennifer Chacon tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on admission in labour early in January (click here). She gave birth at Dignity Health St. Bernadine Medical Center, San Bernadino, California. Mother and baby are doing well. Report 8 January

524. Tiere Scott White, from Omaha, contracted Covid-19 in late pregnancy in October (click here). She spent 30 days anaesthetised, and presumably ventilated. Her baby was delivered at 32 weeks. Both recovered. Report 8 January

523. Gemma Robinson from Hereford, UK, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in labour on 20 December (click here). Her and the baby were fine. Report 9 January.

522. An unnamed 36 year old woman with twins contracted severe Covid-19 and required ventilation and delivery by Ceasarean at Milton Keynes Hospital in early January (click here). The same report describes Daniyal Rizvi, who contracted Covid-19 and required critical care, but not ventilation at 13 weeks gestation. Her pregnancy is ongoing. Report 8 January

7 Jan 2021

521. Laura Eames, from Hull, East Yorkshire, was asymptomatic but tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 the day before her elective Caesarean (click here). Report 30 December.

520. Asley Gomez, from Van Nuys, Los Angeles, contracted Covid-19 and was delivered by Caesarean at Kaiser Woodland Hills hospital in December, but died soon afterwards (click here). Report 7 Jan

6 Jan 2021

319. Kaylee Gabak contracted Covid-19 on Christmas day and gave birth the next (click here). On 29 December she required ventilation and ECMO. Both are ongoing. Report 5 January.

318. Helen McEntee, Justice minister in the Republic of Ireland, who had announced her pregnancy on December 5th, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in early January (click here). Her pregnancy is ongoing. Report 6 January

317. Rachel Arfin contracted Covid-19 at 35 weeks and was was admitted to the ICU in University College London (click here). Her pregnancy is ongoing. Two other unnamed pregnant women are in the ICU in the same hospital. Report 6 January

5 Jan 2021

316. Safna, wife of Zulfikar Ali, from Thrissur, Kerala, India, contracted Covid-19 at term and gave birth by caesarean (click here). She recovered and the baby was not infected. Report 5 January.

315. Mackenzie Eagle Road, from McAlester, Oklahoma, USA, contracted Covid-19 at term (click here). She gave birth normally and recovered. The baby tested negative. Report 5 January.

314. JoEllen Engelbart, a lawyer from Missouri, USA, contracted Covid-19 and gave birth 3 months prematurely on 29th Dec (click here). She died four days later. The baby survived. Report 4 Janurary.

4 Jan 2021

313. Silatik Qavvik, from Sanikiluaq, Canada, contracted Covid-19 while pregnant and gave birth by Caesarean in November (click here). She died about a month later of complications of the disease. Her baby “is fine”. Report 3 January.

312. Beth Olliver from Barrow-in-Furness, UK, contracted Covid-19 at 16 weeks gestation and gave birth by Caesarean at 24 weeks due to obstetric complications, preterm rupture of membranes (click here). She and her premature baby survived. Report 4 January.

3 Jan 2020

311. Jennifer McWilliams, who had recently tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 gave birth at the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, on 1 January (click here). Report 2 Jan.

310. Iqra, wife of Ali Muhammad, who had Covid-19, gave birth by Caesarean in Hyderabad, India, on 2 January (click here). Report 3 Jan.

309. Emi Maganja from Croatia, contracted severe Covid-19 and gave birth on 14 December (click here). The baby survived but she died on 31st December. Report 1 Jan.

1 Jan 2020

308. An unnamed pregnant nurse in Tulsa, Oklahoma, recovered from Covid and her pregnancy was continuing (click here). Report 31 December.

307. Sukanya Gawda, from Mumbai, India, was asymptomatic, but tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at term, and gave birth to a healthy boy in Nair hospital on May 12 (click here). Report 1 January.

306. An unnamed pregnant women with Covid-19 is being cared for in intensive care at London’s Whittington Hospital (click here). Report 31 December.

305. Keira Sanded, from Newhaven, East Sussex, UK, contracted Covid-19 at 21 weeks gestation (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 31 December.

304. Susie Espinoza, from Memphis, USA, contracted Covid-19 at 27 weeks gestation in May 2020, and gave birth by Caesarean while on a ventilator (click here or here). She and the baby recovered. Report 31 December.

303. Hilda Cruz Perez from Ohio, USA, contracted Covid-19 at and gave birth to a healthy boy by Caesarean (click here). After the birth her condition deteriorated, and she is currently ventilated and being treated with ECMO at Promedica Toledo hospital. Report 28 December.

31 December

302. Mariam Muhammad (a pseudonym), from Garowe, Puntland, Somalia contracted Covid-19 at eight-months gestation at the beginning of November 2020 (click here). She recovered and gave birth at term. The report describes ten other SARS-CoV-2 positive pregnant or postnatal women, and 20 suspected cases. Report 30 December.

301. Mehpara Navqi, from Bradford, UK, contracted Covid-19 at the start of October, at 7 months gestation (click here). She required nine days ventilation, and her baby was delivered prematurely by Caesarean. Both survived. Report 31 December.

28 December

300. Cindy Zepeda from California, contracted Covid-19 while pregnant and died in July (click here). The baby also died. Report 28 December.

299. Grace Victory, a UK social media personality, contracted Covid-19, as a result of which her baby had to be delivered early (click here). Her condition deteriorated and at the time of writing she had been placed in an induced coma. Report 28 December.

27 December

298. Sasha Jackson, from Birmingham, Alabama, contracted Covid-19 in July and gave birth prematurely (click here). Both mother and baby survived. Report 25 December.

297. Monique Jones, from Missouri USA, contracted Covid-19 at 5 months gestation (click here). She required prolonged ventilation, and her baby was born prematurely, but both survived. Report 27 December.

24 December

296. This newspaper report (in French) includes mention of 15 ectopic pregnancies & 34 maternal deaths in women with Covid-19, which have not previously been reported (click here). The maternal deaths are from the Indian “PregCovid Registry”. Denominator not stated, but rate reported as 1.1%. Report 21 December

23 December

295. Sara Roby, from Louisville, Kentucky, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during labour (click here). She was asymptomatic and gave birth normally. Her baby tested positive. Although reportedly also asymptomatic, the baby was retained in hospital. Report 23 December.

294. Alexandra Abrill, from Canada, contracted Covid-19 in December, near term (click here). She gave birth soon after, and the baby tested negative. Report 19 December

293. Vanessa Gonzalez, from Whittier in California, contracted Covid-19 in November, and gave birth shortly after (click here). The baby survived, but her condition deterioriated and she died on December 14. Report 23 December.

292. Cecilia Duran, a midwife in New York, contracted Covid-19 in March at 10 weeks gestation (click here). She recovered and had a healthy baby. Report 23 December.

291b. Tori Wiley, a nurse from Georgia, USA, contracted Covid-19 early in pregnancy, recovered, and gave birth normally at term to a healthy boy (click here). Report 23 December.

22 December

291a. Vasilisa Frolova, Ukrainian TV and radio host, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 late in her pregnancy (click here). Report 22 December.

14 December

290. Nicole Keane, from Lexington Kentucky, tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 when her husband had symptoms and tested positive (click here). She was due in December, but on October 26, her baby was delivered by emergency Caesarean. The baby suffered brain damage. Her husband died of Covid-19 a short time after the birth. Report 14 December.

289. Princess Sophia of Sweden is pregnant and due in late March/early April (click here). It had previously been reported that she tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on 24 November (click here). This would suggest she was about 20 weeks gestation when she tested positive. Report 14 December. Update 5 Jan. This report (click here) confirms that the had SARS-CoV-2 during the pregnancy and has recovered. Update 27 March (click here). She gave birth to a healthy baby on 26 March.

288. Kate Glaser from Buffalo, New York, and Erica Evert, from northern Virginia both contracted Covid-19 in late pregnancy (click here). Glaser’s route of delivery was not reported. Evert had a Caesarean. Both babies tested negative. Report 14 December

13 December

287. Dalia Gabriela Sosa Atondo, an obstetrician in Culiacán, Mexico contracted Covid-19 at 30 weeks gestation (click here). The baby survived, but she died on 21 August. Report 22 August.

10 December

286. Tawauna Averette from Ohio contracted Covid-19, and was delivered by Caesarean, but died on 14 November (click here). The baby was healthy. Report 10 December.

9 December

285. A woman named only as D, age 22, contracted Covid-19 and gave birth normally at FL Tobing Sibolga Hospital in North Sumatra on 11 November (click here). Report 15 November.

284. Eva Ahmed, age 28, from Wednesbury, in the West Midlands, UK, contracted Covid-19 and gave birth by Caesarean, on November 16 at 28 weeks (click here). After the birth she required ventilation but recovered. Report 2 December.

283. Svetlana Sorochinskaya, age 36, from St Petersburg, Russia, contracted Covid-19 and required ventilation (click here). She gave birth at 34 weeks and died shortly afterwards. Report 1st December.

282. Jasmine Logan from Detroit was pregnant with twins when she contracted Covid-19 (click here). Labour was induced, but her condition deteriorated, and she required treatment with ECMO at Detroit Medical Center. She recovered, but at the time of writing is still in hospital. Report 8 December.

281. None of the 62 pregnant women from Pune, India, who came into contact between April 6 to 8th with an ultrasonographer who had later tested positive, had shown symptoms by April 16th (click here). Report 16 April.

280. According to this newspaper report 1,089 pregnant women in Illinois have had COVID-19, and five have died (click here). The Illinois Department of Public Health is cited as the source. The five presumably include S276, S277 & S278 below. Report 2 July

279. An unnamed woman from Chicago contracted Covid-19 at 25 weeks (click here). She was cared for at St. Anthony Hospital in Little Village. She was later diagnosed with pre-eclampsia when she delivered in June but mother and baby are reported to be doing well. Report 2 July.

278. Unique Clay, from Chicago, died of Covid-19 on May 7th, five days after giving birth (click here). Report 9th May.

277. A 31-year-old woman, believed to be Lolita Davis, died of Covid-19 on May 15th, at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago (click here). Report 3rd July.

276. Eli Solano died of Covid-19 on April 23rd, at Loyola University Medical Center, in Chicago, days after giving birth (click here). Her baby is doing well. Report 25th April.

5 December

275. Erika Becerra contracted Covid19 at 8 months gestation. She gave birth to her son Diego Antonio Becerra normally after induced labour on November 15, in Detroit. Her condition deteriorated and she died on 4 December (click here). Report 4 December.

274. An unnamed obstetrician died from Covid-19 in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria, in April 2020 (click here). He had reportedly been infected in his private clinic. Report 15 April.

4 December

273. Celma Castro from Brazil contracted Covid 19 at 7 months gestation (click here or here). She was delivered by Caesarean on May 22nd, but died on June 7th. Her daughter survived. Report 3rd December.

272b. Vitebsk Oblast Maternity Hospital in Belarus is currently treating 45 women with the coronavirus infection of whom 25 have already given birth (click here). All babies are healthy. There are reported to be 600 pregnant women with coronavirus in the country. Report 4th December.

272a. Dönüş Kılınç, from Istanbul, Turkey, contracted Covid-19 near to term (click here). She died in childbirth after allegedly being turned away by three hospitals because of her Covid status. The baby survived. Report 3rd December.

1 December

271. Carolina [surname not given], from San Juan del Río gave birth to twins by Caesarean at 33 weeks at Regional General Hospital number 2, in Querétaro, Mexico (click here). The date of the birth was not stated. Report 27 November.

270. Greer Gehler from Anchorage, Alaska, contracted Covid-19 at 20 weeks gestation (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 27 November.

269. Of 133 maternal deaths in Mumbai between April and October, 29 were directly caused by Covid-19, and a further 24 women who died from other causes had tested positive (click here). At BYL Nair Hospital 8/740 Covid positive women died. Sion Hospital had 14 maternal deaths out of 400 covid positive women. Report 28 November

268. Ashley Duque from Clairemont, San Diego contracted Covid-19 at 17 weeks gestation in March (click here). She required ventilation but recovered and gave birth on August 25th. Report 27 November Previously reported NR 71

267. Jessenia Hernandez from Loxahatchee, Florida contracted severe Covid-19 in October (click here). She was delivered by Caesarean at Palms West Hospital and then transferred to JFK Medical Center for ventilation. She recovered. Report 30 November.

266. Celine Ng-Chan from Singapore contracted Covid-19 in March and gave birth on 7 November (click here). Report 29 November

26 November

265. Sara Gutierrez from Texas contracted Covid-19 at 20 weeks gestation (click here). Report 25 November.

264. Kelly Macfarlane from Nashville, Tennessee, is 33 weeks gestation, the pregnancy is complicated by vasa previa, and she has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (click here). A Caesarean birth is planned for next week. Report 26 November.

24 November update

263. Two unnamed Sanömas women, had Covid-19 and their babies died (click here). It is not clear if the mothers were infected in pregnancy or how old the babies were. The women were part of the Yanomami ethnic group, from the village of Auaris, in the Brazilian state of Roraima. Report 24 November.

262. Donna Molina contracted Covid-19 in March at 30 weeks. She required 11 days ventilation, and delivery by Caesarean section at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey (click here). The article also reports Kate Glaser, from upstate New York who contracted Covid-19 at term and delivered normally. Report 21 November.

261. Emily Brown from Tennessee, USA, contracted Covid-19 at 31 weeks in September. She required 20 days ventilation at Erlanger Hospital in McMinn county, during which she was delivered by Caesarean section on September 24 (click here). Report 24 November.

260. In Begaluru, Karnakata, India, 7/300 babies born to women with Covid-19 in Vani Vilas hospital, tested positive. In Gosha hospital, the rate was 15/168, at the Motherhood hospital, 2/35, at Fortis La Femme 1/45, and at Apollo hospital 0/6 (click here). Report 23 November.

19 November update

259. An unnamed woman from Dallas died from Covid-19 on 18 November, shortly after gving birth (click here). Report 18 November

18 November update

258. Gabby Manoz contracted Covid-19 in August and required both ventilation and ECMO at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, California, USA (click here). She was delivered at 32 weeks on September 11. Both mother and baby survived. Report 17 November.

17 November update

257. A woman identified only as Ewelina contracted Covid-19 and required both ventilation and ECMO (click here). The baby named Amelka was delivered via caesarean section at 27 weeks early in November at the University Clinical Hospital in Wroclaw, Poland. The mother is now off the ECMO, and no longer ventilated. The baby is recovering. Report 17 November.

256. Perpetual Uke, a rheumatology consultant at Birmingham City Hospital, in the UK, who was pregnant with twins, contracted Covid-19 in March (click here). She required ventilation, and on  April 10 at 26 weeks, delivery by Caesarean. Both her and the twins survived. Report 17 November.

15 November update

255. An unnamed woman (husband Abdul Aziz Bhat) who had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 gave birth outside the Community Health Center Hajin, the designated Covid-19 Hospital in Bandipora, Jammu & Kashmir, India (click here). Report 15 November.

14 November update

254. Gillian McIntosh contracted severe Covid-19 and gave birth by Caesarean in Abbotsford Hospital, British Columbia, Canada in early November at 38 weeks (click here). She remains on a ventilator. Her baby boy is fine. Report 13 November. Update 31 December. She recovered (click here).

253. Amelia Cortez from Idaho, USA, contracted Covid-19 in May at about 36 weeks gestation. She gave birth soon after but her condition deteriorated and she required ventilation. She survived but six months later still requires respiratory support via an oxygen tank (click here). Report 14 November.

13 November update

252. Madeleine Surges from Duluth, Minnesota, contracted COVID-19 at 38 weeks gestation (click here). The birth is awaited. Report 12 November.

11 November update

251. According to this report about one hundred pregnant women have been infected with the coronavirus in the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District, in Finland, since the pandemic began (click here). Report 10 November.

250. Lissy Yaya contracted Covid-19 at about 28 weeks and gave birth at about the same gestation to baby Jorgito in mid June, during the peak of the pandemic in Peru. Jorgito also tested positive but eventually recovered (click here). Report 11 November.

249. The stories of Blanca Rodriguez R215 below, and Monica Ramirez R242 below, are told in more detail (click here). According to the report another 46 unnamed pregnant women with Covid-19 have also been cared for at Loma Linda University Medical Center, of whom a quarter needed respiratory support. Report 10 November.

7 November update

248. Jessi Jenson age 24 contracted Covid-19 and on Oct. 28 gave birth by caesarean at term (click here). The baby was healthy but a few days later the mother became seriously ill and required ventilation and later transfer to Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, for ECMO treatment where at the time of writing she remains. Report 6 November.

247. An unnamed 34 year old woman with Covid-19 died on 6 November in Magadan infectious diseases hospital №2 in Magadan, Russia (click here). The baby, born prematurely by caesarean, survived. Report 7 November

3 November update

246. Sharlene Gillies from Birmingham, UK, contracted Covid-19 at 12 weeks (click here). She recovered and on Sept 24th, at 37 weeks, was delivered by Caesarean hysterectomy. The hysterectomy had been planned to treat co-existing cervical cancer. Report 2 November

245. This BBC news report states that between April and June 2020 there were 40 intrapartum stillbirths in England compared with 24 in the same period in 2019 (click here). Report 2 November.

27 October update

244. An unnamed woman tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and gave birth at San Jorge de Huesca University Hospital in Aragon, Spain (click here). The baby also tested positive. Report 26 October.

243. Sadie Robinson, an American TV actress (Duck Dynasty) contracted Covid-19 early in pregnancy and recovered (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 26 October.

25 October update

242. Monica Ramirez contracted Covid-19 at 30 weeks (click here). She delivered by Caesarean and was on a ventilator for 3 weeks. She and her baby survived. She had been admitted to Corona Regional Medical Center in San Bernardino County, California in July, and later transfereed to Loma Linda University Medical Center. 48 pregnant women with Covid-19 have been cared for at the latter hospital. Report 24 October.

18 October update

241. Chava Leah bas Esther is seriously ill with Covid-19 in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv (click here). Two weeks following Caesarean birth she remains on a ventilator & ECMO. The baby survived. Report 12 October.

240. Nuha Abu Siam died of COVID-19 on October 8, one month after she gave birth by Caesarean at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba (click here). She had been treated with ECMO. The baby was unaffected. Report 12 October.

239. This Reuters report suggests that 80% of pregnant women in Bolivia are testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 (click here). Although I’m unaware of any different figures, this seems unlikely. Report 12 October.

238. Emily Donovan contracted Covid-19 and gave birth at 37 weeks at NorthBay Medical Center in Fairfield California, in July (click here). Mother and baby were fine. Report 15 October.

237. Heather Stocks gave birth in August at Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, UK, after a false positive SARS-CoV-2 test (click here). Report 15 October.

236. Nahid Khan, and about 700 other women with Covid-19, have given birth at Nair hospital in Mumbai, india (click here). She and her baby survived. But eight other women and their babies died. Report 16 October.

235. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 at 23 weeks gestation appealed to the Bombay High Court to be allowed a pregnancy termination (click here). Report 14 October.

6 October update

234. Asfia Samreen contracted severe Covid-19 at 24 weeks gestation and required prolonged ventilation in Abu Dhabi (click here). She recovered and later gave birth to a healthy baby. Report 6 October.

5 October update

233. Pooja Charaniya contracted severe Covid-19 at 23 weeks gestation (click here). She spent 13 days on a ventilator at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, Texas, USA and recovered. On July 22nd at 36 weeks she gave birth to Zayd who is healthy and Covid free. Report 30 September.

232. An unnamed mother infected with SARS-CoV-2 gave birth in the Skane region, in the south of Sweden to a baby who was also infected with SARS-CoV-2 (click here). Report 19 August.

29 September update

231. Thirty four pregnant women with Covid-19 have given birth in Mohali Civil Hospital, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, India (click here). Report 17 September.

230. Three hundred & seventeen women with SARS-CoV-2 have given birth at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP), the biggest Covid-19 hospital in Delhi, India (click here). 143 were by Caesarean. Only 3 or 4 newborns were infected. Report 28 September.

27 September update

229. Santosh University Hospital, Ghaziabad, India has treated about 50 women with Covid-19 in pregnancy (click here). Some details are given about three infected women with pseudonyms who were delivered by Caesarean at term, and one who had birth induced at 28 weeks gestation. Report 21 September.

26 September update

228. An unnamed pregnant doctor from Indore, India, is reported to have developed Covid-19 twice during her pregnancy (click here). She first tested positive on June 19 and recovered. She tested positive again on September 19. She has mild disease, is being treated at home and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 21 September.

227. Dr Pratiksha Waldekar (age 32), a pathologist from Amravati, died of Covid-19 at a private hospital in Nagpur, India,on September 20th (click here). She was 7 months pregnant. Her baby had died five days earlier. Report 22 September

226. Mrs Celine Ng-Chan contracted Covid-19 at 10 weeks gestation (click here). The pregnancy continued and she is due to give birth next month in Singapore. Report 26 September

14 September update

225. Sarah Curtis from Distington, Cumbria, UK, contracted Covid-19 shortly before giving birth to twins at 30 weeks (click here and here). Both babies were infected but survived. The pregnancy had been complicated by twin-to-twin tranfusion syndrome, and treated with laser ablation of the placental vessels.  Report 14 September.

13 September update

224. An unnamed woman tested positive and gave birth at 36 weeks in Taipei, Taiwan (click here). The baby tested negative. Report 12 September.

223. An unnamed woman with conflicting SARS-CoV-2 test results gave birth in a private hospital in Mohali, a suburb of Chandigarh, India (click here). Report 13 September.

9 September update

222. Ke’Lin Dillard, age 29, from Baton Rouge Louisiana, contracted Covid-19 and was delivered by Caesarean section in late July (click here). The baby tested negative and survived, but the mother remained on a ventilator and died on August 17. Report 7 Sept

221. An unnamed 23-year-old pregnant woman, with Covid-19 and other complications gave birth by Caesarean section at Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) in Madurai, India, on August 11th (click here). Her age and clinical details differ from the woman in report 210. Report 8 Sept.

220. Maike Zwalf, from Queensland Australia, a transgender man, who also had cystic fibrosis, contracted Covid-19 at term and gave birth normally (click here). Report 8 Sept.

219. Patricia Alvarez from Baytown, near Houston, Texas, contracted Covid-19 in pregnancy, self-isolated at home and gave birth normally at term (click here). Report 9 Sept.

1 September update

218. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 gave birth at Victoria Hospital in Bangaluru, Karnataka, India on 26 August (click here). The baby died. Report 27 August.

217. An unnamed 39-year-old woman with Covid-19, from Lucban town in Quezon province in the Philippines, gave birth at the government run Quezon Medical Center (QMC) in Lucena city on 25 August (click here). The birth was normal. According to Dr. Belen Garana, head OB-GYN at QMC there has been a rise in pregnant women testing positive over the prevuious two weeks. Most were asymptomatic. Report 28 August.

216. Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, is opening an isolation facility with 200 beds for suspected and confirmed cases of Covid-19 (click here). So far 100 women have been suspected and one tested positive.. Report 25 August.

215. Blanca Rodriguez contracted Covid-19 at 28 weeks gestation (click here). She required prolonged ventilation, and her baby was delivered by C-section at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California. Both survived. Report 28 August.

214. In Los Angeles County 1,200 pregnant women have tested positive for the virus and two have died. Of 193 babies tested, eight were positive (click here). Report 26 August.

213. In the Indian state of Meghalaya, 877 babies and 61 pregnant women died over the four month COVID-19 pandemic (click here). Only 10 people in the state had died due to COVID-19 directly. According to Director of Health Services, Dr Aman War the maternal and perinatal mortality rate is a sharp rise above normal, largely due to women avoiding normal care and dying of other causes. Report 29 August.

212. Camila Graciano, from Anapolis, in the central Brazilian state of Goias, contracted Covid-19 at 32 weeks gestation (click here). Birth was induced, but she died. The baby survived. Report 26 August.

21 August update

211. An unnamed woman died from Covid-19 on 20th August, seven days after giving birth in Olongapo City in the Philippines (click here). Report 21 August.

20 August update

210. An unnamed woman with surgically corrected mitral valve disease and Covid-19 gave birth at the Rajaji Hospital in Madurai, India on August 13 (click here). Report 20 August.

209. A one-day-old baby born on August 16, at Assam Medical College & Hospital (AMCH) in Dibrugarh, India, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (click here). His mother was also positive, but it is not clear whether her test was during or after the pregnancy. Report 20 August.

19 August update

208. Belma Soljanin, age 37, died from Covid-19, 3 days after giving birth at Podhrastovi hospital in Sarajevo. She was head of the institute for mother and child. The baby tested negative and has no symptoms (click here). Report 10 August.  HT Dr Branka Firulovic

18 August update

207. About 28 women have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at some point in the pregnancy among those cared for at the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street, Dublin (click here). Report 17 August.

206. Out of 170 Covid-19 births at Parklands Hospital Dallas, five babies tested positive (click here).  Among them, 28-year-old Yuri Matamoros was seriously ill. She recovered and gave birth to a son Jesus, who tested negative. Note the minor inconsistency with report 200. Report 17 August.

17 August update

205. An unnamed 37-year-old woman, with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 gave birth by Caesarean at 47 weeks gestation to a healthy boy at the “Attikon” General Hospital in Athens on 16 August. The baby weighed 2,630g, was in excellent health and was isolated (click here). Report 16 August.

16 August update

204. Eighty eight pregnant women with Covid-19 have delivered in the Indian State of Odisha, of whom 32 gave birth in a dedicated Covid hospital in Ganjam, and 15 in the city of Blasore (click here). All mothers recovered. One baby was infected. Report 15 August.

15 August update

203. Zully, from Stamford Connecticut, contracted severe Covid-19 in April at 8 months gestation. She required ventilation, but both her and the baby survived (click here). Report 11 August.

202. María Alvarez age 24 had SARS-CoV-2 while pregnant but was asymptomatic. She gave birth on July 29th at Peru’s National Perinatal and Maternal Institute, in Lima (click here). Mother & baby were fine. According to the report over 2,000 pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 gave birth in that hospital between April and the start of August. 120 newborns were reported to have tested positive. Report 12 August.

14 August update

201.  Only one unnamed pregnant woman was diagnosed with Covid-19 in Buenos Aires, Argentina between March 20 and May 5th. She gave birth at Sardá Maternity Hospital. Mother & baby were discharged on April 29 (click here). Over the same period there were 2,200 deliveries in the the 33 public hospitals in Buenos Aires. Report 5th May.

13 August update

200. Wendy Figueroa contracted Covid-19 at 34 weeks and gave birth vaginally at Parkland Hospital in Texas (click here). Her baby Alexa was isolated and tested positive. The case was reported in Study 186 here. This newspaper report also notes that six babies have tested positive at Parkland Hospital out of 128 mothers with SARS-CoV-2 at some point during their pregnancy. Report 13 August. Update 5 November 2021 (click here).

12 August update (Thank you to Dr Christoph Brezinke & Dr Branka Firulovic for alerting me to reports 195-199 from Serbia and Romania)

199. An unnamed 31-year-old woman with Covid-19 died at 22 weeks gestation in Baia Mare hospital on 30 July (click here). The same day a 39-year-old with Covid-19 died at 28 weeks gestation during ambulance transfer between Arad and Timisioara. Report 30 July.

198. On August 8th an unnamed 33-year-old woman with Covid-19 died at 25 weeks gestation in Alba Iulia hopsital, Romania (click here). Report 8 August.

197. This report (click here) describes the two patients below (R195 & R196), and mentions a further pregnant woman from Vranje who was admitted to the Nis Clinical Center on July 3rd with symptoms of the corona virus, but testing negative, who has been on artificial ventilation since July 18. Report 29 July.

196. On 28 July 2020 an unnamed 34-year-old woman with severe Covid-19 pneumonia died after cesarean at 26 weeks gestation in Nis hospital, Serbia (click here). The baby is in neonatal intensive care. Report 28 July.

195. On 21 July 2020 an unnamed 27-year-old woman died from Covid-19 (click here). Her baby had been stillborn the previous day. Both were cared for at Nis hospital, Serbia. Report 21 July.

11 August update

194. Belma Soljanin contracted Covid-19 at 35 weeks (click here). She was delivered by Caesarean on 6 August at the Clinical Centre University Sarajevo Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic. The baby tested negative and survived, but she died on August 9th in Podhrastovi ward in Sarajevo. Report 9 August.

193. Brittany Lance, from Rockford Illinois, contracted Covid-19 at 28 weeks. She required ventilation and spent 40 days in ICU (click here). Her baby was born prematurely by Caesarean. Report 5 August.

192. Sonam Sreekant contracted mild Covid-19 during her pregnancy (click here). She was nursed at home and recovered. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 11 August.

191. Nadu Morgan contracted Covid-19 at between 12 and 16 weeks gestation (click here). She was initially treated at Nkhoma Hospital and later transferred to Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi. She recovered. The pregnancy is ongoing.  Report 4 August.

190. Haley Peterson contracted Covid-19 at 19 weeks gestation (click here). Her symptoms were mild and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 5 August.

189. Ebony Brown-Olaseinde contracted Covid-19 at 27 week gestation with twins. She required ventilation and delivery by Caesarean at 28 weeks at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New .Jersey (click here). Mother & babies survived. Report 6 August.

188. Brittany Hartwell, from Brevard county, Florida, contracted Covid-19 while pregnant. Her baby was born by Caesarean at AdventHealth at 27 weeks (click here). Both recovered, but the baby had a grade 4 intra-ventricular bleed. Report 7 August.

187. An unnamed woman died after childbirth at the Manati Hospital in Puerto Rico on 18 July (click here). Report 22 July.

186. A newborn baby in Basildon tested positive two days after birth on May 11 (click here). The mother, Presley Dowdall, had pre-eclampsia and obstetric cholestasis, but tested negative. Both recovered. Report 30 July.

185. An unnamed 24-year-old woman with COVID-19, gave birth to a healthy daughter at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal, India, on August 10th (click here). Report August 10th.

184. Molly Grantham, from North Carolina, contracted Covid-19 postnatally. She developed pneumonia but recovered. Her baby remain uninfected (click here). Report 7 August.

31 July update

183. 19-year-old Janete Vasconcelos da Silva, contracted Covid-19 at 8 months gestation and was cared for at a hospital in Santarem, Para State, Brazil on July 17, 2020 (click here). Report 21 July.

182. There have been 2,842 infections among pregnant and post partum women in Mexico, and 83 deaths (click here). Report 13 July.

181. Three mothers tested positive at the Pumwani maternity hospital in Nairobi, Kenya (click here). No babies were affected. Report 14 July.

180. Amandine tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and gave birth to Mahaut by Caesarean at CHIREC Delta Hospital in Brussels, Belgium April 25, 2020 (click here). Both mother and baby were doing well. Report 26 April.

30 July update

179. Essence Townsend from Scottsdale, Arizona contracted Covid-19 at about 32 weeks (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 27 July.

178. Three pregnant women with Covid-19 have been turned away by hospitals in Kolkota, West Bengal (click here). The outcomes appear to have been good. Report 28 July.

177. Kia Anderson, from Memphis, Tennessee, contracted Covid-19 at 23 weeks (click here). She self-isolated at home and recovered. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 27 July

176. 54 pregnant women have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in El Paso, Texas (click here). No newborns have tested positive. Report 28 July.

175. An unnamed woman gave birth at term at the end of May in Sassoon hospital, Pune, India (click here). She had no symptoms but had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. The baby had fever, lethargy and signs of severe Covid-19, tested positive and recovered. Report 28 July.

174. Accidental duplicate of Report 72. Veronica Markley contracted Covid 19 at 27 weeks gestation (click here). She was cared for at Presbyterian St. Lukes hospital in Denver, Colorado, and required ventilation for some days. She recovered and gave birth at term. She tested positive again on the day of the birth. The baby was fine. Report 29 July.

27 July update

173. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 gave birth on 22 July at Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital in Agartala, in Tripura, NE India (click here). Both “mother and child are safe”. Report 23 July.

172. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 gave birth at Diphu Medical College & Hospital (DMCH) in Karbi Anglong district in Assam, India (click here). Both mother & child are in a ‘stable’ condition. Earlier Runjun Mahanta and Kankana Barman, who both had Covid-19, gave birth to healthy babies in Kokrajhar, Assam. Report 27 July.

25 July update

171. Kaillee Dyke contracted Covid-19 at 27 weeks gestatiowith twins, and required ventilation in the intensive care unit at Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia (click here). At the time of the report she remained on the ventilator, the pregnancy was ongoing and the babies were undelivered. Report 19 July.

170. Marzanne Lennox contracted Covid-19 at 30 weeks gestation and required 2 weeks ventilation at Life Wilgers Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa (click here). She survived. The baby was stillborn and delivered by Caesarean. Report 16 July.

20 July update

169. One hundred women with Covid-19 have given birth at Vani Vilas Hospital in Bengaluru, India (click here). The hospital has treated up to 350 pregnant women with Covid-19. Report 17 July.

168. A woman with Covid-19 gave birth by Caesarean at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-Patna on 19 July (click here). The baby has not yet been tested. Report 20 July.

167. Ten women with Covid-19 gave birth in Gauhati Medical College and Hospital in Assam, India (click here). Report 19 July.

18 July update

166. Sarah Green from San Antonio in Texas is pregnant and contracted COVID-19 (click here). She is self isolating at home and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 18 July.

165. Rocio Casalduc from New Hampshire contracted Covid-19 during her pregnancy and was anaeshetised. presumably ventilated, and her baby delivered (click here). Both survived. Report 18 July

15 July update

164. Diana Angola, 36, contracted Covid-19 at 26 weeks. She required ventilation and Caesarean section, at the Versaille clinic in Cali, Colombia (click here). She recovered. Her son Jefferson tested negative and remains in hospital. Report 29 June.

163. Sarah Scully, age 35, from Birmingham UK contracted Covid-19 at a late stage of her prengancy (click here). She was delivered by Caesarean section at Birmingham Women’s Hospital on 12 April. After a month of intensive care she died on May 12. The baby survived. Report 20 June.

162. Aurora Chacon Esparza, age 35, from Minnesota, contracted Covid-19 at 30 weeks gestation. She required ventilation and was delivered by Caesarean at North Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn Minneapolis. The baby survived, but she remains critically ill on a ventilator (click here). Report 11 July. Update 11 August. She died on 18 July (click here).

161. Larissa Blanco was pregnant with twins. She had flu like symptoms and tested positive for SARS- CoV-2 on June 12. The Covid-19 was reported to have been mild. The twins were born at a private hospital in Botucatu, Sao Paulo on June 27, but she died soon after from bleeding (click here). The twins survived. Report 2 July.

160. Dora Nginza Hospital in port Elizbeth S Africa has treated 19 pregnant patients who have tested positive for Covid-19 (click here). The hospital treated its first case in pregnancy on 30 March (click here). Reports 9 April & 24 June.

14 July update

159. Esbeidy Reyes contracted Covid-19 at about 28 weeks, and was admitted to the ICU at Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. She was treated with immune plasma from someone who had recovered from the virus (click here). She recovered. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 28 June.

158. The Institute of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (IOG) & Government Hospital for Women and Children, Egmore, in Chennai, has treated 294 women who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. None have died.  Kasturba Gandhi Hospital (KGH) for Women and Children, Triplicane has cared for 229 positive women of whom 187 have been discharged, but no further details are available (click here). The Government Kilpauk Medical College Hospital has 30 COVID-19 positive pregnant women. At least 10% of babies are reported to have tested positive. No details were available for Chennai’s largest maternity hospital, Government RSRM Lying-in Hospital, Royapuram. Report 20 June.

157. Morgan Brink, from Johannesburg South Africa, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at 22 weeks gestation. She recovered and her son was born by Caesarean at 35 weeks on 11 July. He is recovering (click here). Report 14 July.

13 July update

156. Rocio Martinez contracted Covid-19 at 20 weeks (click here). She recovered, and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report July 8.

155. An unnamed woman from Hesperia, California died from Covid-19 on 26 June (click here). The baby survived and tested negative. According to the report she was the 2nd pregnant woman to die from the disease in California. At the time of the report 72 pregnant women in San Bernardino County had contracted COVID-19. Report 10 July.

154. Maggie Sillero was 28 weeks pregnant with triplets when she tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (click here). She remained asymptomatic and was delivered by Caesarean at the Woman’s Hospital of Texas in Houston at 32 weeks. The babies all did well. Report 9 July.

153. The wife of professional tennis player Viktor Troicki is pregnant and has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (click here). Report 23 June.

26 June update

152. An unnamed 40-year-old woman, with SARS-CoV-2, gave birth to a baby girl at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria (click here). Both mother and the baby “are doing fine.” Report 27 April.

24 June update

151. An unnamed 24-year-old woman with Covid-19 and an ectopic pregnancy died in the Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India, on 19 June (click here). Report 20 June.

150. Five pregnant girls have contracted Covid-19 at a state-run children’s shelter in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur districy (click here). They are being treated at Kanpur Medical College. No further details. Report 22 June.

149. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 was delivered by Caesarean section at 31 weeks in the Semmelweis Hospital in Budapest (click here). The baby tested negative. Report 23 June.

23 June update

R 20 update. Karen Mannering (report 20 here) gave birth to a healthy baby on 16 June (click here). Report 22 June.

148. A unnamed asymptomatic woman with SARS-Cov2 gave birth to triplets in Mexico on May 8th. (click here). The babies tested positive on the day of birth but are reportedly “not in danger”.  Report 23 June.

147. An unnamed 20-year-old woman who tested positive for coronavirus on June 14 gave birth on June 15 in a COVID care centre in Amravati in Maharashtra. Both mother and baby recovered. Another unnamed woman with COVID-19, from Rohankheda village in Morshi tehsil, gave birth to a boy on June 19 (click here). Both also recovered. Report 22 June.

146. Kate Foxall, 36, from Charminster contracted Covid-19 at 38 weeks, and gave birth to Ostara at St Mary’s Maternity Unit in Poole on May 15 (click here). Ostara’s coronovirus status was not reported but she was fine. Report 22 June.

145. An unnamed  29-year-old woman from Sombrerete in Mexico gave birth to triplets prematurely by Caesarean section on May 6th at Zacatecas Women’s Hospital (click here). She tested positive postnatally. The babies all tested negative. Two died from prematurity. Report 14 May

18 June update

144. Monica V. Garcia from Elizabeth, New Jersey contracted Covid-19 during pregnancy (click here). She recovered without special treatment. The baby is due August 3. Report 22 May.

143. Three pregnant women with Covid-19 in the Cayman Islands recovered with no special treatment (click here). No further details. Report 15 June.

15 June update

142. The Nair hospital in Mumbai successfully completed 302 deliveries of Covid-19 positive women. Doctors said none of the babies born in last two months had tested positive at the time of birth (click here). Report 15 June.

141. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 from Old Dhaka gave birth to a baby boy at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in Bangladesh (click here). Both recovered. Report 17 May.

140. An unnamed woman in late pregnancy tested positive in Meghalaya, Bangladesh (click here). No further details given. Report 10 June.

14 June update

139. Liberian nurse Sedia Marwolo, aged 38, was 32 weeks gestation when she contracted Covid-19 (click here). She recovered and later had a healthy baby. Report 23 May.

Update (click here) of report 17 from Baton Rouge (click here). The mother, who had required ventilation but laboured spontanously at 21+6 days, and whose baby had died soon after birth, is named as Kenna Allen. She recovered. Report 10 June.

138. An unnamed women contracted Covid-19 at 28 weeks gestation, and required delivery at 29 weeks at Dubai’s King’s College Hospital London (click here). The baby was not infected and both recovered. Two other women with less severe disease in the same hospital also recovered and their babies were not infected. Report 11 June.

137. Danielle Wood, age 32, contracted Covid-19  at 32 weeks gestation (click here). She self-isolated at home. Her baby born at 38 weeks was not infected. Report 12 June.

8 June update

136. A woman, identified only as Ilse, developed Covid-19 at 31 weeks gestation (click here). She required ventilation at Rodolfo de Mucha Macías hospital in Mexico City. At 34 weeks she was delivered by Caesarean. The baby tested negative and both recovered. The hospital has cared for four other women with Covid-19. Three recovered and their pregnancies are ongoing. No details were given of the fourth. Report 3rd june.

135. Rusia Goes, aged 42, from Rio de Janeiro developed Covid-19 at 8 months gestion (click here). She required ventilation and delivery by caesarean. The baby tested negative and was isolated from her. She eventually recovered. Report 26 May.

7 June update

134. An unnamed 20 year old woman died after giving birth at 7 months gestation to a stillborn baby in Vellore Medical College and Hospital (click here). The birth was by Caesarean section and the cause of death was reported as complications of pregnancy-induced hypertension. She had tested positive for Sars-Cov2. Report 6 June.

133. 79 pregnant women have tested positive for COVID-19 in Kashmir (click here). Mainly from the Anantnag district. No further details. Report 6 June.

132. Neelam Kumari, age 30, from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, died in the eighth month of her pregnancy of Covid-19 (click here). Report 7 June.

131. Abi Atkin, aged 34, from Sheffield contracted mild Covid-19 at 34 weeks (click here). She recovered without treatment and gave birth normally at term. Report 6 June.

5 June update

130. An unnamed 22-year-old woman from Padarayanapura, Bengaluru, India, contracted Covid-19 at 8 months gestation (click here). No further details. Report 5th June.

2 June update

129. Michelle Hunter contracted Covid-19 at term (click here). Her son, Hank, was delivered by Caesarean section at an unnamed Vernon, British Columbia hospital. He tested negative. Report 30 May.

1 June update

128. Wafa Boudissa, age 28, died of the coronavirus at 8 months gestation (click here). She was a doctor working in the Intensive Care unit of Ras El Oued hospital in eastern Algeria. Report May 18.

127. A unnamed 28-year-old woman, who was six months pregnant, died in Kalsekar hospital, Mumbra, India after three private hospitals refused to admit her because of suspected Covid-19 (click here). Her death certificate says she died of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) with suspected Covid. HT @DeepakNModi. Report 29 May.

31 May update 

126. Vegan lifestyle vlogger Rachel Ama contracted Covid-19 at 11 weeks gestation (click here). She recovered and the pregnancy is continuing. Report 30 May.

30 May update

125. Hilda Garson, age 28, from Manitoba, tested positive for SARS-Cov2 in March (click here). She self isolated, is now 21 weeks, and the pregnancy is ongoing. Three other pregnant women in Manitoba are reported to have tested positive. Report 28 May.

124. Rashmi Kapoor tested positive at term and delivered in Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital in New Delhi (click here). Report 27 May.

123. Amanda Joyce, from Boston, Massachusetts, contracted Covid-19 on March 19th at about 21 weeks gestation (click here). She self-isolated at home and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report May 29.

28 May update Reports 121 and 122 added.

122. A belated addition. An anonymous woman with Covid-19 in Wuhan (click here) gives birth to an infected baby. Report 5 Feb.

121. Candice Bowie contracted Covid-19 in April in prison in Louisiana at 8 months gestation. On May 4th she was released and went to an unnamed hospital where she was scheduled to deliver by Caesarean (click here). Report 18 May.

26 May update Reports 115-120 added.

120. Diamond, a pseudonym, developed mild Covid 19 at term and delivered at Toronto’s Michael Garron Hospital (click here). Mother and baby survived. Report 21 May.

119. Tasnim Shaheen developed severe Covid-19 at about 28 weeks gestation. She required ventilation and Caesarean at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York (click here). Mother and baby are still in hospital but recovering. Report 11 May.

118. An unnamed 20-year-old coronavirus positive woman from Medchal has given birth to twins by Caesarean section at Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad (click here). The mother was asymptomatic. The twins are awaiting testing. Report 26 May.

117. Lisseth Hernandez developed Covid-19 at 29 weeks gestation with twins. She required ventilation and was delivered at 30 weeks by Caesarean (click here). She recovered. The babies were isolated and did well. Report 19 May.

116. There are 2,561 pregnant women in Russia with coronavirus infection. 2,035 tested positive for SARS-Cov2. Presumably the rest are clinical diagnoses (click here).  There are 816 pregnant women with the coronavirus infection in Moscow alone. Report 25 May.

115. Katie Miller, the spokeswoman for US Vice President Mike Pence, is pregnant and has tested positive for SARS.Cov2 (click here). She has recovered and is back at work. The pregnancy is continuing. Report 26 May.

21 May update Reports 111-114 added.

114. Claire Trusson, age 37, developed Covid-19 at 34 weeks (click here). It was an IVF pregnancy. She gave birth at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton. Both recovered. Report 29 April.

113. Shaquilla James, of Summerton, South Carolina developed Covid-19 at 38 weeks gestation (click here). She gave birth the same day at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence, SC, but later was put on a ventilator. Mother & baby both recovered. Report 20 May.

112. Alicia Kappers, age 40, was 31 weeks when she developed Covid-19 on March 24 (click here). She was cared for at the TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she required prolonged ventilation and a tracheostomy. She went into pre-term labour at 32 weeks and was delivered by Caesarean. The baby tested negative. Both are recovering at home. Report 17 May

111. There have been 115 babies born to Covid-19 infected mothers at the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital – also called Sion Hospital – in Mumbai (click here). Three babies were infected, but recovered. Two mothers died, one of whom was aged 28 and died after giving birth.  Report 21 May. (HT Francis Githae Murithi)

18 May update – report 109 added.

110. An unnamed woman with Covid-10 gave birth in the North Ossetia city of Beslan (click here). Both mother and baby are now home. The head of the unnamed hospital’s maternity unit, Hassan Tagaiev, said that 17 of 35 women who were about to give birth there had tested positive for Covid-19.  Report 18 May.

109. Kimberly Phillips, age 44, who had Covid 19, gave birth on May 2nd, at 40 weeks gestation, at the Princess of Wales hospital in Bridgend (click here & here). Her baby, Coolio Carl Justin Morgan, died age 3 days. The primary cause of death was hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, secondary cause maternal Covid-19. Kimberley is reported to have needed intensive care but has now been discharged. Reports 13, 14 May

17 May update reports 107 & 108 added

108. An unnamed 29-year-old from Sindhupalchowk district in Nepal gave birth on May 6, and died of COVID-19 on May 16, in Kathmandu (click here). Report 17 May

107. An unnamed 27-year-old, from Dharavi slum in Maharashtra, tested positive for coronavirus in Belagavi city on 14 May (click here). She was 7 months gestation. Dharavi is in Mumbai . Belagavi is 500 km to the south. Report 15 May

16 May update – reports 105 & 106 added

106. Ten pregnant women with Covid-19 have been were treated at Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer Hospital in Tel Aviv (click here). Four have given birth, one of whom was in critical condition and was transferred to ICU. Report 15 May.

105. An unnamed woman with SARS-COV-2 gave birth at 39 weeks gestation in Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi  (click here). The baby was not infected. Report 15 May.

13 May update – reports 103 and 104 added.

104. Mili América Antelo, age 40, was pregnant with twins at when she developed severe Covid-19 at 28 weeks gestation (click here). She required Caesarean section and spent 11 days in intensive care (7 on a ventilator) at Vall d’Hebron hospital in Barcelona. The twins both tested negative. Mili has now been discharged. Report 11 May.

103. The Los Angles Times reports that roughly 134 pregnant women have tested positive, in LA county (click here). Over 82% of them were symptomatic. There have been 29 live births, and one stillbirth. Twenty-four infants were tested at birth, including one set of twins, and none tested positive. The virus has not been detected in amniotic fluid, breast milk or other “maternal samples”. Report 11 May.

10 May update – cases 97-102 added

102. Six women with COVID-19 have given birth in a government hospital in Peru. Five babies were healthy and have been discharged. The sixth woman remains in a serious condition in the intensive care unit. Her baby was born prematurely and remains hospitalized. None of the babies tested positive for COVID-19 (click here). Report 9 May.

101. Jessa Yager, from Grand island, Nebraska, developed Covid-19 while pregnant  (click here). She is recovering and the pregnancy is ongoing at 36 weeks. Report 7 May.

100. Rachel Bailey from Shelby County, Alabama, was 5-months pregnant when she developed Covid-19 (click here). She is now 30 weeks and recovering. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 6 May

99. Patient 765, a 20-year-old woman from Padrayanpura, in the late stage of pregnancy, tested positive on 8 May at Vani Villas Women and Children Hospital in Bangalore, Karnataka, India (click here). No further details. Report 9 May.

98. Florette Johnson from Florida, had Covid-19 around term. She had a vaginal birth but later required ventilation (click here). The baby was isolated. Both mother and baby are recovering. Report 9 May.

97. Monique Cook from Atlanta, Georgia, developed Covid-19 at 8 months gestation with twins. She was delivered by Caesarean section at Piedmont Henry hospital on 22 March, and transferred to Piedmont Atlanta hospital for ECMO treatment (click here). She was extubated after 5 days and is now recovering at home.  The twins have also been discharged. Report 8 May

9 May update

96. Gabriela Maia, the wife of Max Johnson, the half brother of British prime minister Boris Johnson, is pregnant, and has Covid-19 (click here). She is recovering. Report 28 March.

95. A baby born at 30 weeks gestation on April 3, in Natal, Brazil, tested positive for SARS- Cov2, and died age 4 days. The mother had respiratory symptoms but her test result was not yet available (click here). The authorities cannot confirm if the infection caused the death. Report 10 April.

8 May update – Cases 86-94 added.

94. Terra Eubanks, a pregnant nurse at Baton Rouge General Hospital in Louisiana, got Covid-19. She recovered (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 7 May.

93. Johana Rocio Mendoza Chancay, age 40, from Union City, New Jersey, was 26 weeks gestation when she developed Covid-19. She was transferred from Hoboken University Medical Center to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick where she gave birth by Caesarean section on March 30th (click here). Her daughter Zion weighed 1lb 13oz. The mother was ventilated and in a coma until April 13. Both recovered. Report 22 April.

92. An unnamed pregnant woman (referred to as P652) had an inconclusive Covid-19 test result at Dr Lal Path Labs in Delhi on 2nd May. The result was interpreted at positive and the woman was nursed on a Covid-19 ward. On May 6, a test at Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute’s Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory was declared negative. A third test at the National Institute of Virology’s Bengaluru Field Unit was also negative (click here). Report 8 May.

91. An unnamed pregnant woman is among five Lincolnshire police staff who have tested positive for coronavirus (click here). Report 5 May.

90. Katherine Dawson, aged 36, developed Covid-19 at 32 weeks gestation. She was delivered by Caesarean section at Blackpool Victoria Hospital on 1 April. Her condition deteriorated and she required artificial ventilation (click here). The baby, Ruby, was reported to be infected at birth. Mother and baby recovered, and were discharged on 6 May. Report 6 May.

89. An unnamed  28-year-old women, recovered from Covid-19 and was discharged from Symbiosis Hospital in her 37th week of pregnancy (click here). Report 24 April.

88. An unnamed five-month pregnant woman tested positive for coronavirus at the Pune Municipal Corporation’s Sonawane hospital (click here). She was transferred to Bharati Hospital. Report 14 April.

86. & 87. An unnamed 25-year-old pregnant woman with Covid-19 gave birth by Caesarean section on April 20 at the Sassoon General Hospital in Pune, India, to a healthy boy. Another unnamed woman with Covid-19 delivered by Caesarean section the same day in Aurangabad district civil hospital (click here). Neither baby was infected. Report April 20.

7 May update – cases 80 to 85 added.

85. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 gave birth in Nagaur in Rajustan, India, on April 23 to a baby who also tested positive (click here). Eight other pregnant women from the Ramganj area also tested positive. Report 24 April.

84. An unnamed pregnant woman who had recovered from Covid19 gave birth at her home in Kalnad, Kerala, India after being refused hospital admission (click here). She was later treated at Kannur Medical College Hospital in Pariyaram, before transfer to the General Hospital in Kasaragod for observation. The outcome was not reported. Report 4 May

82 & 83. An unnamed 35-year-old woman from Shangus in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district had Covid-19 at the time of her birth at the SKIMS Medical College Hospital Bemina, Jammu & Kashmir, India (click here). No further details are given. The same report notes that two other pregnant women “have died and nearly 10 have got infected with coronavirus in past two weeks” at the same hospital. It is not clear whether the two women who died had Covid 19. Elsewhere in the same report another woman, Firdousa Javaid is reported to have tested positive in a different maternity hospital, Lalla Ded. Report 6 May.

81. Melissa Brewer from Mountain Green, Utah, whose baby is due in May 2020, had minimal symptoms but tested positive for SARS-CoV2 (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 5 May.

80. Molly Baldwin, age 28, from Fitchburg, Massachusetts, developed Covid-19 at 33 weeks gestation (click here). She is self-quarantining at home. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 5 May

5 May update – cases 78 & 79 added

79. An unnamed baby developed Covid-19 at age three months and was treated at Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh between April 12 and 26th (click here). His mother was SARS-COV-2 negative and continued to breast feed him. The baby recovered and the mother remained negative. Report 5 May.

78. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 gave birth at Aurangabad Civil Hospital in Maharashtra, India (click here). The baby was not infected. Report 5 May.

4 May update – cases 74 to 77 added.

77. Sarita [a pseudonym] from Los Angeles was asymptomatic, but tested positive for SARS-COV-2 during her pregnancy (click here). Her baby, born mid April, was isolated from her and tested negative. At four days of age the baby suffered some sort of respiratory arrest, but recovered. Report 1st May

76. Silvia Leroy, age 35, developed Covid-19 and was transferred from Brookdale, her local hospital, to Mount Sinai hospital in Manhattan (click here). She was on a ventilator for a week, but appeared to be recovering, when she had a cardiac arrest. Her baby, Esther, was delivered by Caesarean section. Sylvia is alive but reported to have brain damage. Report 29 April.

75. Kim Stidworthy, age 25, from New Mexico was 20 weeks gestation when she developed Covid-19 (click here). She spent four days in hospital. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 1st May.

74. Tamekia Melong, age 37, from Baldwin, Long Island, New York is pregnant and developed Covid-19 in March (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 3rd May

30 April update – Cases 71 to 73 added. Also up to 10 pregnant women had tested positive for corona virus in the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin (click here) by 1 April. Report 1 April.

73. Alysha Ramos, age 29, pregnant with Covid-19, is in prison in Valparaiso, Indiana (click here & here). Reports 5 & 23 April.

72. Veronica Markley, age 37, from Colorado had Covid-19 at 30 weeks gestation (click here). She was intubated and put on a ventilator at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver, but is recovering. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 27 April. See report 174. Update 4 March 2021. Both her and the baby recovered (click here).

71. Ashley Duque, age 33, from San Diego developed Covid-19 at 17 weeks gestation (click here). She required 4 days ventilation but is recovering. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 10 April.

29 April update – Cases 63 to 70 added.  Case 9 – Carrie Symonds, the partner of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who gave birth to a healthy baby boy on April 29th, updated. Case 61, an accidental duplicate, deleted. Maternal and baby deaths highlighted in bold.

70. Jennifer Laubach from Clarkston, Michigan, gave birth to twins at 32 weeks at Troy Beaumont Hospital. The babies were isolated because she had symptoms and her partner had Covid-19. She later tested positive (click here). She and the twins recovered. Report 29 April.

69. Abigail Jacobs, age 29, from Kahnawake near Montreal, Canada, developed Covid-19 symptoms in mid March at 24 weeks gestation (click here). Her first test was negative, but a repeat on March 29 was positive. She self-isolated and has recovered. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 18 April.

68. An unnamed woman from Charlotte, North Carolina, who is three and a half months pregnant tested positive for COVID-19 (click here). Report 14 April.

67. Kim Anderson, age 36 from Idaho Falls developed Covid-19 on March 22nd at about 8 months gestation (click here). She required oxygen therapy in hospital but not ventilation. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 15 April.

66. A unnamed woman who is four months pregnant is the first pregnant COVID-19 patient admitted to Victoria Hospital in Karnataka, India (click here). Report 31 March.

65. An unnamed pregnant woman age 35 from the Kharpora Kokernag area of Anantnag in Indian administered South Kashmir was admitted to the Maternity and Child Care Hospital in Anantnag (click here). She gave birth to stillborn twins and died soon after. Her test results later confirmed that she was Covid-19 positive. It is reported that Syed Yasir, the commissioner of the region, believes the cause of death was negligence rather than Covid-129. An enquiry is ongoing. Report 27 April.

64. Amanda Joyce, age 33, who works at Newton Wellesley Hospital on the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts, developed Covid-19 while pregnant (click here). She self-isolated at home, and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report  17 April.

63. Andrea Circle Bear, age 30, from Eagle Butte, South Dakota was pregnant and an inmate in a US Federal prison when she developed Covid-19 (click here). She was transferred to Carswell, a federal prison medical facility in Fort Worth, Texas, and thence to a local hospital where she was delivered by Caesarean section on 2 April. She died on 28 April. The baby’s status was not reported. Report 29 April.

28 April update – cases 58 to 62 added

62. Morgan Brink, age 30, from Roodeport in South Africa, tested positive for coronavirus on 25 March (click here). She had a cough and is self-isolating at home. Report 9 April.

61. Marie Youri, age 19, who had Covid-19, gave birth on 11 April in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon (click here). She is on oxygen therapy, & baby Foraya, birth weight 2.1kg, is in isolation. Report 12 April. Accidental duplicate

59 & 60. The deaths of two unidentified women in Mexico (click here). (Report cited in Study 66 here). Report 9th April.

58. Viviane Albuquerque, age 33 from Pernambuco, Brazil, died from Covid-19 at 32 weeks gestation (click here). The baby, delivered by Caesarean, survived. (Report cited in Study 66 (here) which also cites two other newspaper reports of maternal deaths in Brazil, but the links provided miss the reports.) Report 6th April.

26 April update – cases 55 to 57 added

57. Danielle Martin, age 32, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, developed Covid-19 while pregnant with twins at nine weeks (click here). She required artificial ventilation but recovered, and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 23 April. Update 9 October (click here), she gave birth to healthy twins early in October.

56. Molly Burdick, from Portland in Oregon had Covid-19. 18 days later she was treated for a ruptured (tubal) ectopic pregnancy (click here). She recovered. Report 21 April

55. Sally Nuza, from Ascot, Berkshire developed Covid-19 at 8 months gestation (click here). She recovered, the pregnancy is ongoing, and her unborn baby son is ‘perfectly healthy’. Report 24 April.

24 April update – Cases 53 & 54 added.

54. Wogene Debele from Maryland died of Covid-19 three weeks after giving birth (click here).  Report 23 April

53. Fozia Hanif age 29 developed Covid-19 and gave birth by Caesarean section on 2nd April. She died in Birmingham Heartlands Hospital on April 8th (click here). Report 23rd April

21 April update – Cases 50 to 52 added.

52. Jasmine Jones age 26 from Indianapolis, Indiana, and pregnant with twins, tested positive on March 22nd, at 33 weeks (click here). She was symptomatic, self-isolated at home and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 20 April.

51.  Silvana Vergara from New York caught the virus at 22 weeks gestation (click here). She was “reassured”, so presumably has recovered and the pregnancy is ongoing, although this is not specifically stated. Report 18 April.

50. Sarah Manning tested positive for SARS-COV-2 a few days before giving birth in Jersey’s midwifery unit (click here). Presumably a normal vaginal birth. Mother and baby are pictured, unmasked, bottle feeding and not separated. Report 20 April.

19 April update Cases 47 to 49 added.

49. An unnamed woman developed symptoms of Covid-19 soon after giving birth in Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York (click here). Whether she, her partner, or the baby, tested positive has not been disclosed. Report 31 March.

48. Jennifer Kruman, age 33, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, tested positive 12 hours after giving birth to baby Isaac Hai Kruman, on March 31, at Mount Sinai West Hospital, Manhattan (click here). Isaac tested negative and both went home after 24 hours. Report 17 April.

47. Octobeya Scott, age 30, developed COVID-19 pneumonia at 33 weeks gestation (click here). She was delivered by Caesarean section under general anaesthesia, on March 22 at Jack D. Weiler Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Bronx, and ventilated for a further five hours. The baby, Alicia Anderson, was separated for five days. Both have now returned home. Report 18 April.

18 April update Cases 42 to 46 added.

46. Salina Shaw, age 37, from Southend in Essex, who had tested positive for Covid-19, gave birth on 4 April and died on 12 April (click here). Report 17 April.

45. Kilee Coye, age 25, from Canastota, New York State, has tested positive for the virus, and has some symptoms. She is 35 weeks pregnant (click here). Her partner also has Covid-19 and is on a ventilator. Report 15 April.

44. Lidia Puerta, age 26, from Spain tested positive at eight months gestation (click here, para 10). She was in quarantine in a hospital in Singapore, and the pregnancy ongoing at the time of the report. Report 22 March.

43. Yanira Soriano, age 36, developed Covid-19 at 34 weeks gestation (click here). She required ventilation and the baby was delivered by caesarean at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, New York. The baby tested negative. Mother and baby have been discharged. Report 16 April.

42. Megan Sites age 27 from Celina, Ohio, contracted Covid-19 at 29 weeks gestation (click here). She required ventilation, and later ECMO, and the baby was delivered by Caesarean section at 29 weeks. The baby, tested negative twice, is currently on NICU. The mother has improved slightly. Now off ECMO, but still ventilated.  Report 16 April.

16 April update Case 40 & 41 added.

41. Actress Patti Murin, age 39, probably has Covid-19, but has not been tested, and is self-isolating at home in California (click here). She is pregnant and due in July, so about 27 weeks gestation. Report 9 April.

40. Mary Agyeiwaa Boateng, née Agyapong, age 28, died on 12 April, in Luton & Dunstable Hospital UK from Covid-19 (click here). Her baby was reported to be “doing very well”. Report 15 April.

14 April update Cases 35-39 added

39. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 is delivered by Caesarean section at 32 weeks gestation at a public hospital in Nairobi (click here). The obstetrician used a pseudonym because she was not authorised to speak to the media.  No further details were given. Report 13 April.

38. Angela Primachenko age 27 from Vancouver was diagnosed with Covid-19 at 33 weeks and became seriously ill. She gave birth at 34 weeks after induced labour, while being ventilated at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center (click here). Her daughter was isolated in intensive care and has tested negative. Mrs. Primachneko has been discharged home. Report 13 April.

35-37. This report in The New York Times (click here) describes Precious Anderson, pregnant & critically ill with Covid-19, and two other unnamed women. The piece also mentions 29 pregnant or delivering women with suspected or confirmed Covid-19 in the Brooklyn Hospital Center. No mother or baby had died, and there had been no confirmed cases among newborns. The Brooklyn Hospital Centre is separate from the Presbyterian Allen Hospital & Columbia Irving Medical Center, so presumably these cases have not been reported in an academic paper yet. Report 12 April.

13 April update Cases 32-34 added. HT @danieladrandic.

34. An unnamed woman, delivered by Caesarean section at the MedLife Grivita private maternity hospital in Bucharest on March 13th, developed pneumonia after birth (click here). A test taken on March 20th was positive and she was transferred to Matei Bals Hospital, the Covid-19 treatment center in Bucharest. At the time of transfer mother and baby were reported to be in good condition (click here). Report 24 March.

33. These ten asymptomatic babies, in a maternity unit in the Romanian city of Timisoara, were apparently not infected in pregnancy or by their mothers (click here). “The mothers tested negative, but the babies tested positive so we have to consider their contacts with medical staff.” Report 7 April.

32. An unnamed mother died in the University Clinic of Gynaecology & Obstetrics in Skopje, North Macedonia. Her baby had died before birth. Neither death was directly due to Covid-19, but according to the report the mother, who had been transferred from Ohrid General Hospital, had her treatment delayed while Covid-19 test results (eventually negative) were awaited. This delay may have contributed to her death (click here). An investigation is ongoing. Report 6 April.

12 April update

31. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 was delivered by Caesarean section in the King Abdullah University Hospital in Irbid, northern Jordan (click here). The baby was isolated from the mother and has reportedly tested negative. Mother and baby doing well. Report 29 March.

30. Sophie Biddle, age 37, was diagnosed with Covid-19 on March 7th, but has recovered (click here). Her 20 week scan on March 23 was reportedly normal and the pregnancy is ongoing. Report 30 March.

10 April update cases 26 – 29 added.

29. An unnamed woman in Ritsona refugee camp 40 miles north of Athens tested positive for Covid-19 a day or two after giving birth (click here). Reort 2 April.

28. 19-year old Marie Youri with Covid-19 gave birth prematurely in Yaounde, Cameroon (click here and here). She is said to be doing well with oxygen treatment. The baby Foraya weighed 2,100 grams and has not displayed any coronavirus symptoms. Report 8 April.

27. An unnamed 22-year-old woman with Covid-19 from Kyengera, Wakiso District, Uganda gave birth by Caesarean Section at Entebbe Grade B Hospital on April 5th (click here). Mother and baby were said to be in good health. Report 6 April.

26. An unnamed pregnant woman from Nallasopara died at Nair Hospital in Mumbai on April 4 (click here). Her baby was reported to have died in-utero before admission. She had been referred from a local hospital in Nallasopara after her condition deteriorated. It is reported that doctors suspect she died of Covid-19. A committee is investigating. Report 7 April.

A separate report (click here) of a 30 year old, nine month pregnant woman dying of Covid-19 in Mumbai may refer to the same woman. Report 6 April.

9 April update case 25 added.

25. Mallory Pease gave birth at Oaklawn Hospital in Marshall, Michigan to daughter Alivia on March 23 at term (click here). She was symptomatic and tested positive for Covid-19. Alivia was not infected. Route of delivery not reported. Mother and baby both now discharged. Report 8 April.

8 April update cases 19 – 24 added.

24. Raquel Iacurto, age 32, a teacher from New York, was admitted to Long Island Jewish Medical Center with respiratory symptoms at 25 weeks gestation on March 11 and tested positive (click here).  She was discharged after three days. The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 28 March.

23. Simone Shoffman, a beauty blogger from Bothwell, near Glasgow in Scotland is pregnant and has tested positive. She is undelivered at home (click here). Report 6 April.

21. & 22. Two unnamed pregnant women with COVID-19 gave birth in Rebagliati Hospital in Lima, Peru, the first on March 22, the second on March 31st, both by Caesarean (click here). Both mothers were reported to be in good health, and neither baby was infected. Report April 8th.

20. Karen Mannering, from Herne Bay, UK, was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate on 21 March with respiratory infection. She tested positive on 25th March, when she was seven months gestation. She has since been discharged home and the pregnancy is ongoing (click here). Report 31 March, updated 1 April.

19. Michelle Wright, aged 37, who is 29-weeks pregnant, has tested positive for coronavirus. The pregnancy is ongoing. She is an inpatient at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, UK (click here). Report 7 April.

7 April update cases 16 – 18 added.

18. A newborn baby has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus at James Paget Hospital in Norfolk (click here). No details of the mother have been given. Report 18 March.

17. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is reported to have gone into preterm labour at 21 weeks (click here). The baby did not survive. The death was reported to the coroner so presumably the baby was born alive. The mother is reported to be on a ventilator. Report 6th April.  The coroner has reportedly decided that the death was due to coronavirus. The mother remains on a ventilator, update 7 April (click here).

16. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 has died during labour at The Whittingdon Hospital, London (click here). The baby survived. Covid-19 has not been ruled out as the cause, and the death has been referred to the Coroner. Report 6 April.

6 April update. Case 10, the first report, scientific or otherwise, of a COVID-19 birth from France, case 11 from Detroit, case 12, the first report from Greece, and two cases 13 & 14 from Egypt added. I’ve also belatedly added a case from Portugal from 17 March.

15. An unnamed woman with Covid-19 (click here) gave birth in Porto’s São João hospital on 17th March. She was described as “doing well”. No further details were given. Report 17 March.

14. An unnamed woman who had recently recovered from COVID-19 gave birth on 4 April by Caesarean section in Hurghada Hospital, (click here). Report 5th April.

13. A 30-year-old eight months pregnant woman infected with COVID-19, treated at Esna Specialized Hospital in Egypt is recovering (click here). The pregnancy is ongoing. Report 3rd April.

12. An unnamed 24 year old woman infected with Covid-19 has given birth at 40 weeks (term) at Attikon General Hospital in Athens, as reported by the state-run news agency ANA-MPA on 27th March (click here). She had tested positive on March 15 and was kept in the hospital for 2 weeks. The baby boy tested negative. No further details are given but both mother and baby are healthy and ready to go home.

11. First reported in the Detroit Free Press, (link broken). For “Click on Detroit” (click here). Jennifer Thompson from Warren, a Detroit suburb, developed symptoms on March 7th at 8 months. She tested positive on March 13th, and her son, Hollis, was born in Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, on March 28th. Birth details not reported, but mother and baby back home and doing well. Report 4 April.

10. The artist Ariane Chang @Arianechang describes her baby’s birth by elective Caesarean section under regional block at term on March 19th in “a private birthing clinic in the 15th arrondissement” in Paris, [Presumably Maternité Catholique Sainte Félicité] in the New York Review of Books (click here). She had had symptoms of COVID-19 for two days, and tested positive prior to a second operation under general anaesthesia to control intra-abdominal bleeding, the following day. Baby Clare, reportedly the first baby born to a COVID-19 mother in that clinic, was breast fed but not tested. Mother and baby recovering at home. Ariane Chang illustrates the article with her own paintings and drawings. Report 2nd April.

9. Carrie Symonds, the partner of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reported to have had symptoms of Covid-19 for a week (click here and many other sources). According to reports she has not been tested. Since the PM with whom she is living has had confimed COVID-19, it seems likely that she does too. Her due date has been reported as early July. Working back from a hypothetical EDD of 4th July would make her 27 weeks today.  Report 4 April. Update 29 April. She gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Update 11 December 2021. Carrie Symonds had a miscarriage early in 2021, and gave birth to a second child on 9th December 2021 (click here). Report 9 December Update 21 January 2021. Carrie Symonds’ 2nd child, Romy Iris Charlotte Johnson, born on December 9 at University College Hospital in London, contracted Covid aged 5 weeks. She suffered with the virus ‘quite badly’ but is now ‘on the mend’ (click here). Report 19 January

8. Vanesa Muro “a carrier of Covid-19” gave birth to Oscar, birth weight 3.6 kg, by Caesarean on March 13 at the “Madrid hospital in La Paz” [more likely either La Paz university hospital or La Paz maternity hospital in Madrid] (click here).  (El Mundo report click here.) The date of her scheduled Caesarean had been brought forward by three days. Mother and baby were separated for 10 days. Oscar tested negative. Both well. Report 3rd April.

7. Urszula Osborne, age 41, a nurse in Boston Mass, contracted Covid-19 while eight months pregnant (click here). She is recovering and the pregnancy is ongoing. But her husband had severe disease requiring ventilation.  Report 3rd April

6. A 37 year old pregnant woman reportedly infected with Covid-19 died on 29 March after a Caesarean section at the Teresa Herrera Hospital in Coruña. The fetus had reportedly already died (click here). Details conflict, and the family are reported as disputing whether the death was due to Covid-19. An investigation is ongoing (click here). Report 30 March.

5. An unnamed woman age 27 is reported to have died from Covid-19 after giving birth in Łańcut in the south of Poland (click here and here). Report 20th March

4. Allegedly the first birth in Galicia to a mother with Covid-19 (click here). Baby Fabio, born at Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital in Vigo by Caesarean section at 35 weeks. Birth weight 2.6 kg. Not infected. Mother and baby both doing well. Report 19 March.

3. Model, Michela Persico, partner of Juventus footballer, Daniele Rugani, (click here) is reported to be infected with SARS-COV-2 and is pregnant. The pregnancy is ongoing.  Report 19 March.

2. North Middlesex Hospital UK. Mother with Covid-19 pneumonia gives birth to an infected baby (click here). No further details. Report 14 March.

1 Valentina, is the partner of Matteo, who has been claimed to be Italy’s “patient one”. Matteo was seriously ill with Covid-19, but is reported to be recovering. Valentina is also reported to have developed less severe Covid-19, and is recovering at home. She is reported by La Republica (click here) to be eight months pregnant. At the time of the report, Valentina was undelivered. Report 9 March.

Jim Thornton

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