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Among them, 22 are pregnant women,” said health minister Kalicharan Saraf.Till date, the health department took samples of 574 pregnant women and out of those 390 have not completed their first trimester. Health department officials said that there is higher risk of microcephaly when pregnant women are infected with Zika virus in her first trimester of pregnancy. So far, samples of urine and blood from 1,187 suspected Zika patients have been taken.First infant born to a Zika infected mother has already been reported from the city. She was infected when she had completed her full term of pregnancy, which is why, the baby born to her was fine.The health department is keeping a close watch on the health of pregnant women and collecting information about the duration of pregnant. If infected in first trimester, the foetus’s brain and head do not develop properly.Since cases of Zika virus are on the rise, a team of experts from Institute of Virology (NIV) Pune arrived in the city on Tuesday..