Cristiano Ronaldo’s sister Katia Aveiro has been hospitalised with pneumonia due to complications from contracting COVID-19.
The 43-year-old revealed she was in hospital in an Instagram post including a photo of her in her hospital bed attached to a drip.
She is being treated in the same hospital on the island of Madeira as her mother when she needed emergency surgery following her stroke in 2020.
She captioned the post: ‘This is the last type of publication I would like to write. I tried not to do it in recent days, but as news travels fast, and out of respect for those who follow me and care for me and my loved ones, I will share with you the truth. ‘I was caught by this damn virus.