Covid-19: Jabs for young pregnant women more than a month away amid calls to prioritise pregnant women
The reason most pregnant women in South Africa will have to wait at least another month for a Covid-19 jab is that, in terms of the country’s vaccination roll-out protocols and progress, unless a pregnant woman is 35 or older and/or helping to deliver essential government services, she will only be eligible for a vaccination from September 1, when the programme opens up to people aged 18 to 35.
Professor Priya Soma-Pillay, the head of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at Steve Biko Academic Hospital, “Pregnancy isn’t an illness – there are another 45 lobby groups pushing for us to accelerate things. It’s too complex logistically. It will be far better to open access to a younger age group than to try to select clinical priorities,” he says.
Any woman of reproductive age should get the jab as soon as possible, provided she is not in the first trimester of pregnancy ; and “If you look at our early data and the UK, women in the last trimester tend to be admitted to ICU [with Covid-19] needing ventilation,” she says.
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