A 16-yr-old French schoolgirl who had no underlying health problems has become one of the youngest person in Europe to die of COVID-19, according to reports.
The girl who has only being identified as Julie A. tragically died at Necker children’s hospital in Paris after she had a so-called ‘violent’ decline from what started off as just a “slight cough,” her family told French media.
“It’s unbearable,” the girl’s mother, Sabine, told Agence France-Presse. “We were meant to have an ordinary life.”
Her sister, Manon, told Le Parisien newspaper that she went to the doctor with just a slight cough and things escalated dramatically from there.
Her family insisted in interviews that Julie had absolutely no health conditions that put her into a high risk category.
“From the start, we were told that the virus doesn’t affect young people. We believed it, like everyone else,” her mother told the newspaper.
The family went on to say that people “must stop believing that this only affects the elderly. No one is invincible against this mutant virus,” she added.
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