A mum died from coronavirus complications before she got the chance to hold her newborn daughter, her heartbroken family have revealed.
Vanessa Cardenas Gonzalez, who was only 33, fell ill in early November while in the late stages of pregnancy, and she tested positive for Covid-19 a few days later.
After Vanessa gave birth to her daughter, Heaven, on November 9, the pair, from the US city of Whittier, California, were deemed well enough to go home and were released from hospital.
But Vanessa was told to self-isolate and her husband Alfonso refused to let her hold their baby because she was still infected with coronavirus and he feared she would pass it on to the newborn.