At 35 weeks pregnant, Mary Agyapong longed to hold her baby – but that moment never came.

After being rushed to hospital with Covid-19, Mary’s baby was born by C-section. She could not hold her in case she passed on the virus.

Mary, a nurse, died five days later without ever cuddling her daughter, who was named after her tragic mum.

Today husband Ernest Boateng, 30, tells how the couple’s three-year-old son heartbreakingly asks when he can go to heaven to see his mummy.

Ernest is pleading with the Government to shield every pregnant nurse if there is a second wave of Covid-19.

In his first newspaper interview, Ernest said: “That Mary never got to hold her daughter is almost too painful to talk about.