Health DG: 79% of pregnant women who died due to Covid-19 last year were not vaccinated

KUALA LUMPUR: Seventy-nine percent of 191 deaths due to complications of Covid-19 infection among pregnant women last year comprised those who did not receive the vaccine injection.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said of all the deaths involving pregnant women reported since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country, 83% were those with comorbidities.