According to health experts, available evidence suggests that pregnant women are at no greater risk of becoming seriously unwell than other healthy adults if they develop COVID-19. However, it remains a difficult period for expectant mothers as the world continues to battle an unprecedented public health crisis. With more than half a million confirmed cases, South Africa is now in the middle of a "COVID -19 storm", and the health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has warned that the peak for infections will likely continue into September. Our reporter Jane Rabothata spoke to a couple of pregnant women in the country's epicentre province, Gauteng asking them how they are coping during this pandemic, and filed the following report.