An African nurse gives birth as she was dying of coronavirus

Mary Agyapong, 28, was heavily pregnant and working as a nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital in Bedfordshire when she fell ill at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

She tested positive for Covid-19 and died on Easter Sunday, five days after doctors delivered her baby girl, who is also called Mary, by C-section a month prematurely.
‘Mary was such a loving mother,’ says Ernest. ‘We had this tradition when either of us was at work that we’d video call to see how the others were doing. Rarely a day goes by without two-year-old AJ Boateng asking for his mother. His father, Ernest, holds him tight and says they’ll see her later. He can’t bring himself to tell his little boy that his mother is dead.
Mary, who had lived in Britain since she was 16, was also part-way towards realising her dream of becoming a diabetes specialist, after qualifying as a ward sister and applying to study for her masters degree at the University of Hertfordshire.
Agyapong is of Ghana descent.