Malaysian singer dies of Covid days after giving birth

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 10 (BBC): A popular Malaysian singer has died from Covid-19, just days after giving birth to a baby boy - her fourth child.

Eight-month pregnant Siti Sarah Raisuddin, who had experienced low oxygen levels, was put into an induced coma so her baby could be delivered via surgery.

The baby was saved, though she never got to hold him.

Her husband said he made one last video call to her before her death, where she had tears running down her cheeks.

"(It's) as if she understood what we were saying to her," comedian Shuib Sepahtu told local reporters. "It's just that it will be really challenging for me to break the news to my three kids on the death of their mother."

Besides the newborn, the couple have three older children aged

six to 10.