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   A British family is urging people to take social distancing   
   measures seriously after 17 of its members apparently caught the   
   coronavirus at the funeral of a relative who died of the   
   illness, according to a report.   
      
   Almost the entire extended family of Sheila Brooks, 86, who died   
   Feb. 9, attended her funeral two weeks ago — and within days,   
   her niece Susan Nelson, 65, who had no underlying health issues,   
   also died, South West News Service reported.   
      
   Before long, 16 other relatives fell ill, including Nelson’s   
   husband, daughter Amanda, 34, a niece and a great-uncle, after   
   attending the service in Yardley Wood, according to the news   
   outlet.   
      
   “It was my [great] aunt’s funeral so a lot of the wider family   
   were there,” said Amanda, who also suffers from Addison’s   
   disease, an adrenal insufficiency, and is isolating at home.   
      
   “She died back in February, but we have just had so many people   
   contract the virus that I can only think it was from then. We   
   now have someone else in our family in hospital that’s probably   
   not going to survive it,” she continued.   
      
   “My 21-year-old cousin has it, right the way up to a great-uncle   
   that is 88 and is showing some symptoms. It’s a whole section of   
   us, none of us seems to have been missed out of it just yet.   
   It’s a bit strange,” she said.   
      
   “I would say around 17 family members have been displaying   
   symptoms since going to that funeral. It’s hit young and old in   
   our family,” Amanda added.   
      
   “Our beautiful, caring mum was the center of the family. We are   
   a very close, large family and this has destroyed us.”   
      
   Nelson’s son Carl, 42, said she was admitted at Queen Elizabeth   
   Hospital in Birmingham on March 23.   
      
   “She was coughing a lot, very breathless and showing all the   
   traditional symptoms,” he said. “They said the next 48 hours   
   were critical before they called me back a few hours later to   
   say it was very close to the end and one member of the family   
   could be with her.   
      
   “Because I had none of the symptoms, I couldn’t go and my sister   
   was too unwell battling the illness herself,” he said. “People   
   can end up dying on their own. Fortunately, my dad Robert was   
   able to go and be with her when she died.”   
      
   Carl added: “We can’t have any other families to go through what   
   we are going through at the moment.   
      
   “It’s about getting the message out. It’s about seeing the faces   
   of loved ones and thinking this is real,” he added.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2020/03/30/family-of-17-reportedly-gets-   
   coronavirus-after-attending-funeral/   
       
      
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