Pregnant women should now be prioritised for their Covid vaccination, the UK’s vaccines watchdog has recommended. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said that pregnant Scots are at ‘increased risk’ of contracting severe symptoms of the coronavirus.
Experts say that the majority of pregnant women in hospital with severe Covid are unvaccinated. JVCI scientists have ruled that pregnant women should be considered a “clinical risk group” within the Covid vaccination programme.Any expecting mothers that are yet to be vaccinated are now being urgently recommended to complete their primary course of vaccination - which is two doses of the vaccine eight weeks apart.Pregnant women who have already completed their primary