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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Beth Abbit

Vaccines minister to ask MPs who recently had babies for advice on encouraging pregnant women to get Covid jab

The vaccines minister will seek advice from MPs who had children during the pandemic on how to encourage pregnant women to get the Covid jab.

There have been repeated calls for pregnant women to get vaccinated as more data has emerged showing the vaccine to be safe.

The Department of Health and Social Care last week cited statistics from the UK Obstetric Surveillance System which it said showed 96.3% of pregnant women admitted to hospital with Covid-19 symptoms between May and October were unvaccinated, a third of whom required respiratory support.

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