An entire Spanish family including eleven children have contracted the Coronavirus.
The Cebrian Gervas family from Valladolid in north-west Spain have
all been forced to go under strict isolation in their home after every
single one of them was diagnosed with the virus.
Mother, Irene Gervas was the first family to test positive for
COVID-19, before her husband, Jose Maria Cebrian and their eleven
children, 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) were all diagnosed with the disease.
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!”
‘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.’
Since testing positive on March 14, 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.
According to him, 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.
The children are reportedly being home schooled using laptops, tablets and mobile phones.
Jose Maria said: ‘It is important they do not have the feeling that this is chaos, so they have classes from Monday to Friday.’
The country has recorded more than 117,000 coronavirus cases and nearly 11,000 deaths.