Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox A 28-year-old nurse who tested positive for coronavirus died just five days after her second child was born.
Mary Agyapong died of multiple organ failure and Covid-19, a coroner ruled today. The much-loved nurse died on April 12 last year at Luton and Dunstable Hospital, less than a week after doctors delivered her baby by caesarean section.
Before her maternity leave, she had been working as a nurse at the hospital as coronavirus cases in the UK were rising steeply.
Her widower, Ernest Boateng, told the inquest at Bedfordshire and Luton Coroner’s Court that his wife was concerned about becoming infected while heavily pregnant, and said he