The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed shock at reports that more than 460 patients and family members were killed in a maternity hospital following the capture of the Sudanese city of al-Fashir by a militia.

A study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology analyzed more than 18,100 births in Massachusetts of children born to women who contracted the virus starting in the early months of the pandemic through some of 2021.