A mum-of-three who died of Covid eight days after giving birth to a baby boy never got to hold her newborn son. Joanna Jimenez, 36, and her partner both tested positive for the deadly bug a month before she went into labour on February 13.
Doctors had to perform an emergency delivery and due to strict quarantine measures, baby Ashton was taken away at birth to protect him from the virus.
Tragically, Joanna's condition deteriorated rapidly in the week that followed, and she died of Covid eight days later without ever being able to hug her little boy.
The only time she ever got to see little Ashton was on FaceTime and through photos shown to her by nurses, her grief-stricken partner Chad Augustus, 36, said.