‘Get the vaccine’: family of Covid victim’s plea to pregnant women

Saiqa Parveen planned to have jab after giving birth but died from disease after daughter was delivered by emergency caesarean

She was eight months pregnant and weeks from welcoming her fifth daughter to the world, but Saiqa Parveen died of Covid after putting off getting the coronavirus jab. Her family have now issued an emotional plea for pregnant women to get vaccinated.

Parveen, 37, had planned to delay having the jab until her baby was born, her family said, but she was admitted to hospital with breathing difficulties in September and put on a ventilator.