Lives behind grim coronavirus numbers

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'Her skin was still warm.'

As the coronavirus death toll spirals in country after country, the sheer scale of the pandemic sweeping the globe can sometimes obscure the individual tragedies.

The day before he died he said to his wife, Maruska Capoferri:"Go to sleep darling, I'm not going to die." "Helping other people was a mission for him," said Maruska, who has a seven-year-old son, Alessio. The family is one of the first to have received an 20,000 annual state benefit payout for victims of work accidents.

By Tuesday when she was admitted to intensive care Julie was complaining that"my heart hurts", but two coronavirus tests proved negative. He died at his home in Wrexham, north Wales, last week after self-isolating and not seeking medical care, as advised by the government, reports said. Sara cared for patients in Mota del Cuervo, a town of 6,000 people between Madrid and Valencia."She was very well liked by her neighbours in the village and by her colleagues at the health centre," the hospital spokesman told AFP.

 

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