A man has revealed how he and 27 of his family members were struck down with Covid-19, including his father who died of the deadly disease.
Richard Garay, from Los Angeles, California, became the first member of his family to fall sick last month and feared for his life as his condition slowly detoriated. "It went from running nose to headache to full-blown fever," Garay said.
Soon, however, his whole extended family displayed symptoms of Covid-19, including his 60-year-old father Vidal Garay who gradually more ill. "I looked at my father and told my father, "Dad, I don’t think I’m going to make it,"' he said. "Unfortunately, those were my last words to my father, and that’s the last thing my father saw of me," Garay told KTLA.