COVID-19 infection during pregnancy: a systematic review to summarize possible symptoms, treatments, and pregnancy outcomes

Md. Mostaured Ali Khan; Md Nuruzzaman Khan; Md. Golam Mustagir; Juwel Rana; Md. Rajwanul Haque; Md. Mosfequr Rahman

The world is now facing a new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19, started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China), a major epidemic threat that the world has ever faced [1] . Since then, the virus has spread to 205 countries or territories and infected around 1.2 million people, and around 65 thousand of them died as of April 5, 2020 [2] . These rates of infections and deaths have been changing daily because of their higher transmission capacity. Consequently, the witness countries' healthcare systems are now facing problems to treat the infected people properly, although many of them are critically infected and need comprehensive care (5%) [3, 4] . Essentially, these increasing rates are reported when the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic and asked countries to take aggressive measures that are even reflected in countries' various initiatives [5, 6] . The roots of transmission of this virus from an infected to non-infected person are in contact with an infected person's respiratory droplets (coughs or sneezes) [7] , and touching surfaces or objects that were touched by the infected person [7, 8] , and has the capacity to infect 2.28 persons per day [9] .