Pregnant women will get flu vaccine

More than 11 million people, including pregnant women, will be the first to receive the swine flu vaccine, the Government has announced.
Those aged six months to 65 in at-risk groups - including people with asthma, diabetes, heart disease, renal disease or with a compromised immune system - will be first in the queue to get the jab from October.
They will be followed by all pregnant women subject to licensing arrangements on the most suitable trimester to give the jab.
Next to get the vaccine will be people living in households with patients with compromised immune systems followed by anyone over 65 in a conventional at-risk group. Healthy people of any age - including children - will not be given the jab in the coming months. Exact decisions on whether they will be vaccinated and when have not yet been made.
At the same time as at-risk groups are vaccinated, frontline health and social care workers will get the jab.
In total, some 9.4 million people in the UK will receive the vaccine if they fall into priority groups, alongside 2.1 million frontline health and social care workers.
Meanwhile, latest Government estimates suggested the number of people newly diagnosed with swine flu continues to fall, with 25,000 new cases in England in the last week.
A total of 371 patients are currently in hospital as a result of swine flu and the number of deaths linked to the virus is 44.
Experts have said the number of new cases of swine flu should continue to fall while schools and universities are on their summer holidays.