Researchers from the University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Universities of Leeds and Birmingham, Kings and Imperial Colleges London, have published new research that suggests pregnant women are no more likely to become ill with severe Covid-19 than non-pregnant woman.
However, the majority of women who did become severely ill were in their third trimester of pregnancy, emphasising the importance of social distancing for this group..