In a shocking turn of events, a Heathrow immigration officer's daughter died from the same coronavirus (COVID-19) just 24 hours after her father. Daily Mail reports that Mr. Sudhir Sharma who is employed and works at Terminal 3 recently passed away on Wednesday right before his pharmacist daughter Pooje experienced the same fate.
FILE PHOTO: Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) lift a patient into an ambulance while wearing protective gear, as the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in New York City, New York, U.S., March 24, 2020.
The father, aged 61 resides in west London last clocked to work on January 7 prompting officials to suspect that he contracted the COVID-19 elsewhere and not on duty. The father is believed to have already been experiencing underlying health problems which forced him to skip work but despite this had recently returned to work on the frontline.
Sudhir Sharma's daughter Pooja
The 33 year old Pooja worked as a pharmacist over at the Eastbourne District General Hospital located in East Sussex and has thought to have been receiving treatment for three days before the COVID-19 virus took her life.
What is not yet clear is the amount of contact the relatives had leading to their deaths but friends and colleagues have already rushed in to pay their tribute.
According to a certain Nick Jariwalla who is the acting director of Border Force at Heathrow in a statement to The Sun, "Sudhir was a very well-respected, kind and experienced officer. He will be greatly missed by everyone."
Friends of the daughter, Pooja, have also expressed their grief not just as a fellow pharmacist but also as friends of the recently diseased. It has saddened them that both Pooja and her father have passed away suddenly after only 24 hours.
The friends and colleagues then urged the public to take the pandemic seriously as it was able to kill both a father and daughter in just a short span of time.
The UK's coronavirus death toll
Just recently, the UK has experienced a surge in cases after jumping by a third all the way to 759 right after it was announced that 181 more victims were killed by the COVID-19 in the biggest daily rise so far.
According to the health chiefs, almost 15,000 Britons now have the virus including huge names like Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock testing positive. Even Professor Chris Whitty who is the acting Chief Medical Officer of the UK is working from home after the symptoms started to develop.
The COVID-19 is no joke and has slowly infected other countries around the world leaving victims and a pile of dead in its way. Just recently, certain countries like China have reported to be doing better in combat to this virus while other countries see a rise in its fatality.
As the vaccines and cures are still being developed but with no luck to be released any time soon, most countries rely on social distancing as the top preventive measure to combat this virus by keeping people at a safe distance from one another.
