An entire Spanish family of the father, mother and eleven children have contracted coronavirus and are under strict isolation in their home, the Daily Mail of UK reported.
The Cebrian Gervas family have been forced to lock themselves away in Valladolid in north-west Spain after every single one of them was diagnosed with the virus.
Mother, Irene Gervas, was the first in the family to test positive for Covid-19.
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!”
Carmen (15), Fernando (14), Luiz (12), Juan Pablo (11), twins Miguel and Manuel (10), Alvaro (8), Irene (5), Alicia (4), Helena (3), and Jose Maria (1) are now unable to leave their home.
Cebrian added: “In our case, 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 infect others due to the high number of family members under the same roof.
Cebrian added: “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.”
They have so far been in isolation since testing positive on March 14, the day Spain announced it was extending its state of alarm.
The country has recorded more than 117,000 coronavirus cases and nearly 11,000 deaths.
Local media said that the family is relying on relatives and their 14-year-old son to help them deal with the situation.
Their son is only allowed to go out to the pharmacy so long as he wears a face mask and gloves.
Cebrian 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.”
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