The spread of the Corona virus has sounded the alarm in all areas of life, especially in human areas, including pregnancy, which experts have warned about in the "Corona time".
Although the risk of the virus to a pregnant woman and newborn has not yet been proven, several factors have prompted health experts to warn women against pregnancy amid this crisis.
The first factor stems from the low level of health care in general, around the world, because hospitals are busy dealing with Corona injuries, which are rising at a frightening acceleration by the day.
Hospitals that were not prepared to deal with a pandemic of this kind would not be naturally prepared to deal with upcoming pregnancies in the midst of the crisis, according to the Globe and Mail newspaper.
The second reason that warns of pregnancy, is the lack of sufficient information about the effect of the Corona virus on the fetus, and the impact of infection on the newborn.
This lack of information led experts to advise married couples to try to postpone pregnancy after the health crisis.
But exaggerated anxiety is not true either, according to obstetricians, especially since China was sending pregnant mothers some good news during the outbreak there.
Wuhan Chinese hospitals confirmed that 9 children were born to mothers infected with the Corona virus, the virus did not transmit to them after birth, which spread a glimmer of hope on the subject, but it is not enough to determine the matter.
According to Vanessa Polikin, chair of the Infectious Diseases of Canada, the absence of sufficient information about the transmission of the virus during childbirth may be a good thing.
"We have not seen a noticeable rise in abortion or in abnormal deliveries, so far, unlike what we saw when the Zika virus spread, which raised the level of risk to the mother and fetus," Polkin says.
According to experts, the importance of postponing pregnancy at the present time is due to the low level of health care, and not because of the danger of the virus to the mother and fetus.
"The biggest unknown factor is the impact of the epidemic on the nation's health system, and its ability to provide the necessary health care to pregnant women, before and after childbirth," said Canada's chief physician, Jennifer Blake.
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