A new mum who contracted coronavirus died just hours after giving birth to a baby girl, say health officials. Grief-stricken relatives of the 36-year-old woman, named only as Galina, believe she became infected with Covid-19 at the facility, claiming other patients and medics were displaying symptoms.
After coming down with severe symptoms including a fever, she tested positive for coronavirus and just hours later gave birth to a healthy baby girl, who has tested negative for the virus.
Galina, who had underlying health conditions, died after she started having trouble breathing and developed pneumonia, according to a spokesman for the medical centre in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.