‘She just had a cough’: Teen’s COVID-19 death shakes France | Malay Mail

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PARIS, March 27 — A week ago, 16-year-old Julie came down with a slight cough. On Wednesday, she became France’s youngest COVID-19 fatality, shaking a nation hit by a spiralling health crisis. “We’ll never know why,” the girl’s mother Sabine told AFP late Thursday after France’s...

France’s latest grim toll from the coronavirus outbreak stood at nearly 1,700 deaths. — AFP pic

For many people, the high school student’s death brought home what experts have warned — the new virus is not a threat only to the elderly or people with underlying medical problems. Covered head to toe in protective coveralls, masks and gloves, “It was like ‘The Twilight Zone’,” Sabine said, referring to an American science-fiction show from the 1960s.

Later that night Julie was again fighting for breath, and an ambulance transferred her to the renowned Necker children’s hospital in Paris, where two more coronavirus tests were carried out.

 

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