A patient with coronavirus had to say goodbye to her loved one via iPad as they weren’t allowed to be in the same room.
Roberta Shelton, who had underlying health conditions, was the first person in Indiana to die from the virus.
“What makes this really hard, is that this individual’s significant other was also infected, so the two of them could not be together when this patient passed,” said Dr. Ram Yeleti.
She told Fox59: “We had to do iPad conversing so the individuals could see each other. So that this individual did not die alone, one of our nurses stayed in the room.”
Shelton, who was in her 60s, had not traveled out of the state when she contracted the infection, her friends said to Wish TV. It is unclear how she got coronavirus.
Her cousin, Connie Estrada, said she visited a hospital when she had a high fever, and shared on Facebook that she was “ready to go to heaven because she was tired of being in pain.”
Shelton’s friends remembered her as a generous person who always organized fundraising events. Since her death, Indiana has reported a second fatality caused by coronavirus.
In New Jersey, three members of one family died and four other members were left in quarantine after unknowingly spreading the infection at a family gathering.
73-year-old Grace Fusco passed away only hours after her son, Carmine Fusco, succumbed to the virus. Her daughter, 55-year-old Rita Fusco-Jackson, tested positive for coronavirus and also passed away.
20 members of the family have been placed in isolation.
One internet user commented: “OMG just utterly heartbreaking. Everyone (ok most) deserves to have a loved one with them while dying!”
Another wrote: “This virus loves obese people, in a similar story, the coronavirus took out an entire family in New Jersey most of whom were morbidly obese. If you have underlying health issues, stay home.”
A third added: “So sad! God Bless them both.”
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