Dominican Republic center Karl-Anthony Towns of the Minnesota Timberwolves confirmed last night in an emotional video that his mother Jacqueline Cruz is in a coma from the coronavirus.

Towns explained, in broken words, that his mother, born in the Dominican Republic, had been hospitalized last week and that she had health complications due to what he considers to be COVID-19.

The Dominican international explained that his mother had her in a medically induced coma and with an artificial respirator. "I think it is important for everyone to understand the seriousness of what is happening in the world at the moment with the coronavirus, and I think it is my obligation to help raise awareness and that is why I made this video," Towns explained in a recording of almost six minutes that he published on Instagram.

Towns said he had been told that his parents had not felt well since last week and, although he recommended that they go immediately to the hospital, they did not do so until several days later, seeing that they were not improving.



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So it was her sister who took them and asked to be tested for the coronavirus, because they had the symptoms of high fever and dry cough . "We thought that the mixture of medications they were supplying could improve it, but at the end of the day, his clinical condition remained without any improvement," Towns explained. "In the end her lungs were not responding well and she had to be put on an artificial ventilator as her condition suddenly worsened."

Towns, who was born and raised in New Jersey, said his parents were tested for COVID-19 and confirmed that their father, Karl Sr., was released from the hospital, but was told to quarantine while they waited. the test results.

The Timberwolves center said the family assumed their mother had COVID-19 because of the symptoms she was displaying, but that she began to feel better in the past few days before she got worse. "It felt great," Towns said in the video. "We talked and she felt like she was going to get through it. She knew there were more difficult days to come, but I felt like we were going in the right direction. Things suddenly turned against her."

Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell , the second NBA player to test positive for the coronavirus after his teammate, French center Rudy Gobert, did it first on March 11, was the first to send Towns words. of encouragement through Twitter.

"Be strong and trust God," wrote Mitchell, who despite testing positive for the coronavirus never showed symptoms of the disease.

Gobert's positive was the one that caused NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to decide to suspend the entire league competition, while there have already been 10 players infected with the coronavirus, including star forward Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets , and four more people from the teams of the Philadelphia Sixers (3) and Denver Nuggets (1)

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