Health
How Covid-19 affects pregnancy and the newborn – The Star Online
Covid-19 does have some negative effect on pregnancies and the mother-to-be, but newborns seem to be relatively unaffected.

The cumulative number of positive Covid-19 cases in Malaysia exceeded more than 460,000 as of May 16 (2021).
There is a dearth of local information on Covid-19 in pregnancy, apart from four cases in Hospital Sungai Buloh, which were highlighted in a case report published in Universiti Teknologi Mara Faculty of Medicines Journal of Clinical and Health Sciences in January (2021).
The information in this article is from international sources.
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