ABSTRACT
On 30 January 2020 the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared –on the advice of the WHO Emergency Committee –that the outbreak of 2019-nCoV (novel coronavirus) constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). The new virus was later given the official name of COVID-19. Both terms are used in this report.
ABSTRACT
At the time of writing, there is little specific, authoritative advice available for pregnant women or those caring for a newborn. A letter published in The Lancet from Dr Guillaume Favre and col- leagues at the Materno-fetal & Obstetrics Research Unit, Lausanne Uni- versity Hospital, Switzerland, lists outcomes –some adverse –from the SARS and MERS epidemics and suggests an approach commensurate with the other coronavirus outbreaks: