Areema Nasreen: 36-year-old nurse dies after contracting coronavirus
An NHS nurse aged 36 has died at Walsall Manor Hospital in the west Midlands after contracting Covid-19.
Areema Nasreen, a mother of three, died more than two weeks after first being diagnosed with the disease, the hospital confirmed.
Ms Nasreen had worked for the NHS for more than 16 years. She is reported to have died in the early hours of Friday.
When her illness was first reported in the press on 23 March, she was said to have had no underlying health issues and was described as “normally fit and healthy” by her family while she was on a ventilator in the hospital where she worked.
At the time, her sister Kazeema Nasreen said: “People are not taking this seriously enough. She is young – it is not just the elderly who are at risk.
“I want everyone to know how dangerous this is. My sister is only 36 and is normally fit and healthy.”
The 22-year-old said her elder sister was on annual leave from her job at Walsall Manor Hospital when she first started showing symptoms and she could have picked it up “virtually anywhere”.
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