SAINT PETERSBURG, March 2. / TASS /. Cases of infection with a new coronavirus infection during the pandemic in St. Petersburg were detected in more than 1.2 thousand pregnant women. Most of them carried the infection easily, but eight deaths were recorded in the city, Vitaly Bezhenar, chief freelance obstetrician-gynecologist of the St. Petersburg health committee, said at a press conference on Tuesday.
"For the entire period of 2020, according to statistics, more than 1.2 thousand women during pregnancy and childbirth were registered with covid infection in our city. Such a specific feature during pregnancy, which we knew about, and which was confirmed on Our experience, fortunately, is that during pregnancy, women tend to be mildly infected, but this does not mean that infected patients are not dangerous to those around them. institutions ", - said Bejenari.
He added that help for pregnant women infected with coronavirus was organized at the Infectious Diseases Hospital. Botkin, the maternity hospital 16 was also specially redesigned, special beds for women were deployed at the hospital in Kolpino. In addition, an obstetric remote consulting center was created on the basis of the St. Petersburg perinatal center - in difficult cases, doctors consult with specialists from the National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after Academician V. I. Kulakov.
"A small number of women in St. Petersburg is 11.6% of the registered [infected from among pregnant women] who have suffered the disease in severe, medium-severe and severe forms. Unfortunately, despite our efforts, there were deaths. Eight women died during pregnancy, and this is a huge loss. Each case under the close attention of specialists was analyzed. Analysis of cases showed that in most situations - not only for St. Petersburg - the risk group for a severe course up to fatal - mainly in those patients who are burdened by a number of somatic diseases, despite their age, "Bejenari explained.
As the specialist noted, while vaccination against coronavirus among pregnant women is not allowed, but, in his opinion, women who are just planning a pregnancy should be vaccinated in advance.
According to the latest data, 369,057 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in St. Petersburg, according to this indicator, it ranks second among the regions of Russia after Moscow. Recovered after infection 302 916 people, died 11 161. Over the past day in the city revealed 937 cases of infection.