Devastating story behind photo of mother and daughter
<p><span>A British woman has desperately spoken out with a heartfelt plea after she was forced to watch her mother die in the hospital bed next to her.</span><br /><br /><span>Both of the women were admitted to hospital after coronavirus “ravaged through” their family late last year.</span><br /><br /><span>Ultimately the family lost its oldest member.</span><br /><br /><span>Anabel Sharma, 49, spent almost two months in hospital, and since her recovery she has shared a haunting photo showing the final moments she shared with her 76-year-old mother Maria.</span><br /><br /><span>After spending a fortnight in intensive care in the same hospital together, Maria held hands with her daughter for the last time and shared her funeral wishes, iTV reported.</span></p>
<p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7839331/british-family-1.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/b5caf68592054cbb924f8d7868ef5168" /><br /><br /><span>“All I heard was ‘funeral’, she said ‘cremation’ and I said to the doctors I can’t hear what she’s saying.</span><br /><br /><span>“She was telling me not to be scared and that I had to keep fighting for the children but that she had had enough,” Ms Sharma told the UK broadcaster.</span><br /><br /><span>The doctor also informed her that her mother had earlier signed a Do Not Resuscitate order.</span><br /><br /><span>The doctor bluntly told her: “your mum is dying.”</span><br /><br /><span>Ms Sharma believes the novel coronavirus tore through her family at a “frightening” speed, starting with her son who she thinks caught it at school.</span><br /><br /><span>“I would ask people to follow all the precautions and think of others,” she said.</span></p>
<p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7839332/british-family.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/a3d8e97a574647ff96553f75021086e4" /><br /><br /><span>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered England into a new national lockdown to try to slow a Covid-19 surge.</span><br /><br /><span>He says hospitals are at breaking point, and he wants to not overwhelm parts of the health system.</span><br /><br /><span>“As I speak to you tonight, our hospitals are under more pressure from Covid than any time since the start of the pandemic," Johnson said on Monday (local time).</span><br /><br /><span>“With most of the country already under extreme measures, it's clear that we need to do more together to bring this new variant under control.</span><br /><br /><span>“We must therefore go into a national lockdown, which is tough enough to contain this variant. That means the government is once again instructing you to stay at home.”</span></p>
