Italian couple who had been together 60 years die from coronavirus just two hours apart: Heartbroken son says ‘They died alone, I could not even hug them’ following tragic deaths
- Severa Belotti, 82, and Luigi Carrara, 86, lived in the town of Albino, in Bergamo
- They were said to have spent eight days locked down at home with a fever
- Their son Luca Carrara was unable to see them on their death beds in hospital
An Italian couple who had been together for 60 years died without someone to comfort them on their deathbeds, just two hours apart, on Tuesday from coronavirus.
Severa Belotti, 82, and Luigi Carrara, 86, spent the last days of their lives in lockdown, in their hometown of Albino, in the northern Italian province of Bergamo.
Their son, Luca Carrara, claims they were confined to their home, without medical assistance, running a fever of 39 degrees celsius (102.2 Fahrenheit).
The heartbroken son told local newspaper Corriere della Sera that his father, Luigi, was taken to Bergamo hospital on Saturday and his mother, Severa, was admitted to the same facility on Sunday.
One died at 9.15am and the other at 11am, less than two hours apart.
Pictured: Severa Belotti, 82, and Luigi Carrara, 86, from Albino, Bergamo, who died from the coronavirus just hours apart in northern Italy on Tuesday
Luca, who the publication said was angry at the time of interview, told them that he was not allowed to see his parents before they died.
‘They died alone, that’s how this virus works,’ he said.
‘Your loved ones are left alone and you can’t even say goodbye, hug them, try to give them some comfort, maybe even a good lie like “everything will be fine”.’
He added: ‘Your loved ones stay alone and you cannot say bye, hug them, trying to give some comfort’
The son also wrote a touching message on social media which read: ‘Hi mum and dad, this bad virus made you leave the same day, will you keep bickering up there too? I think so, but then everything ended up in a hug’.
An empty street due to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak in Alzano Lomabardo, one of the Bergamo municipalities of the Middle Seriana Valley for which the establishment of a red zone is being considered, in Bergamo, Italy, 05 March 2020
Luca, who is currently in quarantine with his family, complained about the Bergamo Hospital saying ‘they (the staff) do not know where to put patients, probably because doctors are doing a selection and letting the elderly people leave’.
He said his father had no pre-existing medical conditions, saying ‘my father did not know what going to the doctor was’ and said that ‘the truth is that this is not the common flu, it is a terrible flu and if you end up in hospital, you leave dead or alive’.
The son says he was not able to see his parents’ bodies after their death because they were taken to the cemetery and will be cremated within days because ‘there are too many dead people’.
There have been 12,462 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Italy, the most anywhere outside of mainland China, and 827 people have died.