The director of the Health Service Executive's National Women and Infants Programme has said it is "more important" that pregnant women protect themselves from Covid-19 than the rest of the population, but he does not think all pregnant women should be automatically vaccinated.
Professor Peter McKenna was speaking on RTÉ's Today with Claire Byrne in relation to six stillbirths in Ireland linked to coronavirus-related infection of the placenta - Covid placentitis.
He said the advice to minimise contacts "applies to pregnant women even more than it does to the rest of the population". Prof McKenna moved to reassure expectant mothers that 60,000 babies have been born in Ireland since the pandemic began of which there were six stillbirths