Actuality

"In addition, going through Covid-19 while a pregnant woman increases the chances of premature birth and, as a 
consequence, the newborn goes to neonatal care units," he said.
In Cuba, most of the pregnant women with Covid-19 presented a stable clinical evolution, as only one needed intensive 
care.
Data from the Pan American Health Organization indicate that in September 2020 in 14 countries of the Americas 60,458
 pregnant women had been diagnosed with the coronavirus and 458 died.

The director of the National Center for Medical Genetics, Beatriz Marcheco, explained to Prensa Latina that during a 
study of this branch of 1,182 patients who had Covid-19, the seven pregnant women included in the research passed 
the disease without presenting complications.

Neither did they find any repercussions on the fetus, nor was there evidence of any inconvenience in the state of 
gestation after applying the treatments used on the island against the SARS-CoV-2 virus for any patient, the expert 
specified.

‘Cuban pregnant women have the possibility of being identified for follow-up from the first trimester. In times of Covid-19,
 population and contact surveillance was carried out and this provided greater advantages for early treatment of 
diagnosed pregnant women, '' he said. In 2020, Cuba reached a maternal mortality rate of 40 per 100,000 live births and 
the infant mortality rate was 4.9, one of the lowest in the Americas.

The Cuban health system, free for all, has among its priorities the Maternal and Child Care Program, implemented since
 1983 to organize regulations related to reproductive, childhood and adolescent health