‘Calamity of maternal deaths’: Covid concern grows for Brazil’s pregnant

Following 803 pregnant and postpartum deaths, authorities have warned women to delay pregnancy as alarm rises

This month should have been one of the happiest in Leticia Aparecida Gomes's life. The pregnant 23-year-old Brazilian had been due to marry before delivering her baby, Elloah, in August.

Instead, as the Covid-19 pandemic swept Gomes's country claiming thousands of lives each day, she was taken to hospital having been infected herself.