The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), an independent expert group, has advised that pregnant women are more at risk of serious consequences from COVID-19 disease. It is important that pregnant women are fully vaccinated as soon as possible. They should not delay vaccination until after they have given birth. This is to protect them and their babies.
Hundreds of thousands of pregnant women have been vaccinated with Pfizer or Moderna vaccines in the UK and no safety issues have been identified. Vaccination is very effective in preventing severe COVID-19 disease. These vaccines do not contain live coronavirus and cannot infect a pregnant woman or her unborn baby in the womb.
Anyone who has already started vaccination and is offered a second dose whilst pregnant should have a second dose with the same vaccine unless they had a serious side effect after the first dose.