“It has now been shown that the incidence of COVID-19 NCDs in pregnant women is significantly higher than in the population,” the guidelines say.

The course of the disease in pregnant women is similar to the rest, asymptomatic cases are frequent.

Earlier, Denis Logunov, Deputy Director of the Gamaleya Center of the Ministry of Health of Russia, head of the group for the creation of the Russian vaccine against coronavirus Sputnik V, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, assessed the possibility of using this vaccine by pregnant women.