Juliet's mother - the youngest French woman who died of the new Corona virus - does not believe that her 16-year-old daughter died of a pandemic known to be dangerous to the elderly, or those with health problems. Mother Sabine describes what happened as "unbearable", and speaks words that come out quickly from her understanding to describe her shock at the loss of her daughter, what is the meaning of life for her and the need to "continue".

"She had only a cough," she said, speaking to AFP from her home in a Paris suburb. A simple cough appeared benign. It started a week ago and tried to treat it with medicine, herbs, and inhalation of steam.

Jolie began last Saturday feeling short of breath. "It didn't look serious, but she had trouble breathing," the mother said. Then she had a coughing, which prompted the mother to go Monday with her daughter, who does not have specific health problems, to see a doctor.

There the general practitioner noticed an "acceptable" breathing failure and decided to call the ambulance, but eventually firefighters came.
Sabine indicated that they reached their protective clothing, masks and gloves, and took the girl, who wore a paper mask under the mask of oxygen, to the nearest hospital in Longju, in the Esson region.

Sabin returned to her home. When she called the hospital afterwards, they told her that they had a picture of her showing that she had shadows in the lungs "but nothing dangerous", and that they took a sample to examine "Covid 19".

But at night, Jolie, who suffers from shortness of breath, was taken to Necker Hospital for Children in Paris, and two other analyzes related to the emerging coronavirus were performed.

"very rare"

She was taken to the recovery room last Tuesday. And I was placed in a small room with blue walls and games. "At 16 she is still in the children's section," said Sabine. "She is young." When she went to visit her daughter in the afternoon, the girl looked worried. She was speaking, but the speech quickly got tired of her. She said to her mother, "I feel pain in my heart."

But the results of the last two exams of Corona carried good news as they revealed that they were not infected with the virus. "The door to the room was opened," the mother added. "The nurses no longer wore special protective gear and the doctor raised his thumb to indicate to me that things are good." Jolly seemed to have avoided the worst. Sabine returned to her home and promised to return the next day.

Late in the evening, she received a call informing her that the result of the first examination that took place at Lungomo Hospital had arrived, and confirmed that Jolie had "Covid 19" while the girl's condition was deteriorating, and she needed a connection to the ventilator.

"We didn't believe," Sabine asked. We thought they had made a mistake. Why are these results so late? ”

"From the beginning, they told us that the virus does not infect young people, and we believed like everyone," said Manon, Julie's older sister. The family received a call and asked them to quickly go to the hospital. "I was terrified," said Sabine. Words make you understand. ”

The director-general of health, Professor Jerome Salomon, who announced the girl’s death Thursday night, said she was a victim of a fierce form of the virus “very rare” among young people.

"Within one hour"

"It was blue," said Sabine. When she arrived at the hospital with her older daughter, Jolie had passed away. The mother recalls that she touched her hand "and her skin was still warm."

The sister wiped her forehead before informing that they would not see her anymore because the rules at the time of epidemics are very strict. "You have to understand everything they say ... within one hour," said Sabine.

And the purposes of the girl cannot be kept because everything must be burned. But they managed to keep a chain and bracelet.

Jolie's body is lying in the morgue of the Necker Hospital and will not be discharged within days. There will be no ceremony and only 10 people will be buried in the cemetery.

"We had to choose which of our relatives will be present ... On the day of her death, we had to choose the coffin," which will remain closed, and "we will not have the right" to open it to take a look at the farewell over it, Manon said. "It is hard to accept that," added the mother and girl.

Since Thursday evening, TV channels have announced on the news tape the death of a 16-year-old girl from the newly borne Coronavirus. "It is terrible because I know she is my daughter," said Sabine.

According to the latest toll, 1,696 people died of "Covid 19" in hospitals in France since the beginning of the epidemic.