LIVES DESTROYED Healthy Italian family of four all killed by coronavirus in the same week as friends mourn a ‘real tragedy’

AN Italian family of four with no underlying health conditions have all been killed by the coronavirus in the same week.

Alfredo Bertucci, 86, from the northern region of Lombardy, died last week and was quickly followed by his wife and their two sons.

Lombardy has been the region in Italy worst hit by the crisis, and Italy has been the worst-hit country in Europe.

It has so far seen more than 110,000 cases, second only to the US, and at least 13,155 deaths.

Alfredo, a well-respected blacksmith who had passed on his trade to sons Daniele, 54, and Claudio, 46, died on March 27.

The whole family had reportedly been experiencing symptoms associated with coronavirus, including a fever, cough, and breathing difficulties.

Daniele and Claudio both succumbed to the illness in the days following, and their mother, Angela Albergati, 77, died this morning.

All four had been being treated in the same hospital.

Speaking recently to a local newspaper about following in his father's footsteps, Claudio said: “I only felt I was a good blacksmith after around 10 years, at least to my father’s level.

"He taught me this profession.”

Family friend Massimo Giovanni Fasano told local media: “We are all so upset, it is a real tragedy.

“They were all so healthy and strong.”

The majority of people dying from the coronavirus have been older patients and those with underlying health conditions, particularly any that cause respiratory problems or undermine the immune system.

Lombardy was the region in which the first coronavirus cases in Italy were confirmed, and later became the first area of the country to be locked down.

Cases continued to escalate in the area, and reports have emerged of the catastrophic impact the number of patients is having on local health services.

Doctors have described having to leave patients who would normally be in intensive care on wards without the equipment or staff to properly treat them.

Recent days have, however, seen a sharp decline in the number of new cases being confirmed in the region.

Of those infected nationwide since the pandemic began, almost 17,000 have now recovered.



https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11306053/healthy-italian-family-four-killed-coronavirus-week/

Self isolate.....in your room alone!

Shocking.

God have mercy on us.