Background The COVID-19 pandemic is having significant direct and associated effects on
many health outcomes, including maternal mortality. As a useful marker of healthcare …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on health-care systems
and potentially on pregnancy outcomes, but no systematic synthesis of evidence of this …

Objective This is the first comprehensive review to focus on currently available evidence
regarding maternal, fetal and neonatal mortality cases associated with Coronavirus Disease …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic brought a new challenge to maternal mortality in
Brazil. Throughout 2020, Brazil registered 549 maternal deaths, mainly in second and third …

Background Pregnant women are potentially a high-risk population during infectious
disease outbreaks such as COVID-19, because of physiologic immune suppression in …

Objective To determine the COVID 19 related maternal deaths among South African
pregnant women at Ekurhuleni health district in South Africa and to compare with similar …

After initial studies suggested that pregnant women were not at a higher risk of
complications due to COVID‐19 infection, 1 recent inves‐tigations from Sweden and the US …

Abstract Background In Mexico, the COVID-19 pandemic led to preventative measures such
as confinement and social interaction limitations that paradoxically may have aggravated …

Background Besides reducing the quality of obstetric care, the direct impact of COVID‐19 on
pregnancy and postpartum is uncertain. Objective To evaluate the characteristics of …

Introduction Despite a growing body of research on the risks of SARS-CoV-2 infection during
pregnancy, there is continued controversy given heterogeneity in the quality and design of …