A 33-year-old mother succumbed to COVID-19 just 18 days after giving birth to a healthy baby boy in Detroit in the United States.
Erika Becerra contracted the coronavirus last month, as per CBS-affiliate KCBS on Dec. 4. She had no underlying conditions and was already eight months pregnant at the time.
As her condition worsened, doctors decided to induce her labor on Nov. 15. She then welcomed her second child, a son named Diego. However, the disease persisted and her health continued to decline.
“She had a normal labor,” her brother Michael Avilez told the news outlet, “she gave birth to her son but didn’t get to hold him because right after she gave birth, that’s when they put in …
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