An entire family including eleven children have contracted COVID-19 in Spain and are under strict isolation in their home.
The Cebrian Gervas family have been forced to lock themselves away in Valladolid in north-west Spain after every single one of them was diagnosed with the virus.
Mother Irene Gervas was the first in the family to test positive for COVID-19.
Father Jose Maria Cebrian told local media: ‘The children fell one by one. Some of them got over it better and some of them a bit worse. As the virus takes five or six days to show up when you feel bad you start to recall and then you think ‘ok!”
Carmen (15), Fernando (14), Luiz (12), Juan Pablo (11), twins Miguel and Manuel (10), Alvaro (8), Irene (5), Alicia (4), Helena (3), and Jose Maria (1) are now unable to leave their home.
Cebrian added: “In our case, they (the children) are sick one day, they have a headache, they vomit and after vomiting, they feel better. The day after they don’t even remember.”
The family is under a strict lockdown as they could infect others due to the high number of family members under the same roof.
Cebrian added: “The doctor told us that we will have to stay at least two more weeks on an absolute lockdown because of the viral load that we have. If we go out and take it out we could start a source in Valladolid.”
They have so far been in isolation since testing positive on March 14, the day Spain announced it was extending its state of alarm.
The country has recorded more than 117,000 coronavirus cases and nearly 11,000 deaths.
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