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Irish health officials are investigating four stillbirths potentially related to COVID-19, the Republic’s deputy chief medical officer said on Thursday.
Ronan Glynn said officials “have been informed of four preliminary reports of stillbirths potentially associated with a condition called COVID placentitis.”
Glynn told reporters in Dublin that coroners had reported the cases, in which pregnant women tested positive for the coronavirus and subsequently suffered stillbirths.
The cause of stillbirth in such cases is infection of the placenta, he said.
Glynn cautioned that “more work needs to be done” before the findings can be confirmed.
“I cannot give too many details because there are not many more details to give at the moment,” he said.
Ireland has suffered 4,396 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic according to the latest official figures.
The nation is currently in the middle of its third lockdown after suffering the highest per capita infection rate in the world in early January.
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