A widow has told of her shock after her husband died suddenly in hospital with coronavirus, leaving her to say her last goodbyes in a phone call with the nurse looking after him.
Pat Pearce says Allan, her partner of 38 years, had shown no prior symptoms of the virus when he was taken ill at their bungalow in Penarth earlier this month.
The 72-year-old former electrician's mate was rushed to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in the early hours of Saturday, April 4 with a suspected angina attack but passed away the same day. "I keep thinking he's going to walk back through the door any minute, I can't really process what's happened," said Pat, 75, a retired stock room worker, who didn't get the chance to be with her husband in