Story By: Jonathan Macias, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Newsflash
This family of eleven children in Spain have all contracted COVID-19 and are under strict isolation to stop them becoming a source for a wave of infections.
The whole Cebrian Gervas family with eleven children are in isolation at their home in the city of Valladolid in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon in north-western Spain after they found out they had the virus on the 18th of March, only four days after the country went into lockdown on 14th March.
The first one to test positive for COVID-19 was mother Irene Gervas and father Jose Maria Cebrian told local media: “The children fell one by one. Some of them got over it better and some of them a bit worse. As the virus takes five or six days to show up when you feel bad you start to recall and then you think ‘ok!’”
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The names of the children are Jose Maria, 1, Helena, 3, Alicia, 4, Irene, 5, Alvaro, 8, the two twins Miguel and Manuel, 10, Juan Pablo, 11, Luis, 12, Fernando, 14, and Carmen, 15.
Jose Maria also said: “In our cases, they (the children) are sick one day, they have a headache, they vomit and after vomiting, they feel better. The day after they don’t even remember.”
The family is under a strict lockdown as they could be a source of infection for others due to the high number of family members under the same roof.
The dad said: “The doctor told us that we will have to stay at least two more weeks on an absolute lockdown because of the viral load that we have. If we go out and take it out we could start a source in Valladolid.”
Local media report the family is counting on the help of their relatives and 14-year-old son who is only allowed to go out to the pharmacy wearing a face mask and gloves.
The dad also said: “He is the only one who goes out a bit. I take out the rubbish and he is the messenger. When we get our groceries delivered they leave it in the garage and my son goes down to pick it up.
“Our siblings are in Valladolid and our loving mothers, the grandmothers, who do not stop cooking, asking and bringing things.”
The children are reportedly receiving school classes using several devices such as laptops, tablets and mobile phones to keep them entertained.
Jose Maria said: “It is important they do not have the feeling that this is chaos, so they have classes from Monday to Friday.
“We have given our mobile phones for the cause, two old tablets that we have rescued and are saving our lives and a laptop.”
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