"Termination of pregnancy and delivery at the height of the disease is associated with an increase in maternal mortality and a large number of complications: an increase in the underlying disease and the complications it causes, the development and progression of respiratory failure, the occurrence of obstetric bleeding, intrapartum fetal death, postpartum purulent-septic complications," the document read.
The statement added that in cases of continued disruption in the distribution of oxygen due to respiratory ailments caused by COVID-19 that may be fatal to the mother or child, medical staff have reserved the option of performing a cesarean section to carry out the childbearing.
The coronavirus pandemic reached another grim milestone on Friday, with the global death toll reaching nearly 25,000 less than 24 hours after COVID-19 was confirmed to have infected half a million people, according to the data from Johns Hopkins University.
