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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Thomas

Fresh warning to pregnant women to get Covid vaccine after dozens of deaths

© 2023 Melissa Phillip / Staff Photographer

A fresh warning has been issued urging pregnant women to get the Covid vaccine, as new figures show dozens have died after contracting the virus.

Some 27 of the 45 women who died from Covid during 2019-21 were unvaccinated, according to a report from researchers at Oxford University’s MBRRACE team, which studies maternal and infant deaths and stillbirths. Two other women died after catching the flu who had not been vaccinated.

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