French girl, 16, is youngest to die from coronavirus in Europe
Tributes were today paid to the 16-year-old, identified as Julie A, who succumbed to respiratory problems in a Paris hospital on Wednesday after first developing a 'slight cough' a week ago.
AA “much-loved” French girl with no underlying medical conditions is believed to have become the youngest in Europe to die from coronavirus, reports the Evening Standard.
Tributes were today paid to the 16-year-old, identified as Julie A, who succumbed to respiratory problems in a Paris hospital on Wednesday after first developing a “slight cough” a week ago.
“We must stop believing that this virus only affects the elderly,” said her sister Manon.
Manon agreed to speak to Le Parisian newspaper and release a photograph of her sister to warn others about the risk of coronavirus to young people.
The French authorities yesterday said 365 people had been killed by Covid-19 over the previous 24 hours, taking the national total of those who have died in hospital to 1,696.
