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Victorian health authorities have issued an urgent warning to pregnant women in the state to get vaccinated, after Monash hospital had an influx of pregnant women admitted with Covid-19 in the past week.
On the day the state recorded 450 new locally acquired cases of Covid-19, Ryan Hodges – the program director of women’s and newborn, and the director of obstetric services, at Monash – told reporters staff there were “very worried” by the number of pregnant women who had been admitted in the past week who were very sick with Covid-19 and risked having their babies born prematurely.
Read the original article at The Guardian