Pregnant women should 'strongly consider' getting a vaccine when it's available to them

That's according to the Master of the National Maternity Hospital

He was responding to a US study which found that pregnant women with Covid-19 were at higher risk of serious illness, hospitalisation and death than non-pregnancy women of similar age.

Professor Shane Higgins said the evidence is 'certainly mounting' that the vaccines are safe, including for pregnant women in high-risk groups.

He says he would advise pregnant women to get the vaccine when it's available:

"Certainly all the evidence would suggest that, particularly if you're in a high risk group, and it's very well defined what a high risk group is for pregnancy, that you should strongly consider getting the vaccine, but my advice is that when the vaccine becomes available to any pregnant woman then she should consider strongly getting it."