A heavily-pregnant nurse who died after contracting coronavirus lost her life shortly after giving birth via a caesarean section, an inquest heard today.
Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong died five days after being admitted to Luton and Dunstable Hospital on Tuesday, April 7, where she worked.
The 28-year-old had been taken for a cesarean section, where her baby girl, also named Mary, was successfully delivered. Just two weeks before her death, Mary's father Stephen died from suspected Covid-19.
Speaking at the inquest at Ampthill in Bedfordshire, the coroner’s officer Alan Dawson said Mary was born in Agogo in Ghana on, January 10, 1992.