Husband urges people to get vaccinated after wife died of COVID a few days after giving birth

An unvaccinated woman died of COVID-19 after giving birth to a daughter. Her husband urged people to be vaccinated to avoid the same fate.

Samantha Willis, 35, died on Friday at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry, Northern Ireland, after battling the virus for 16 days.

in a tribute Published on Facebook, Her husband, Josh Willis, said his wife died without meeting their newborn daughter, Evie Grace.

He wrote: “While in the hospital, she must also deliver our newest member to the family she has never met or held in her arms.” “I will make sure that Eviegrace knows everything about her mother that she will never see. “

Josh Willis also posted a message TwitterUrges people to get vaccinated.

“Thursday and Friday, my deceased wife and I spent a few hours in the intensive care unit,” he said wrote In a post on his signed souvenir corporate account.

“This is true, the numbers are true. Get vaccinated so that you or your family don’t have to go through what I have to go through. As I write this article, I am lying next to her. She is 35 years old and has no Get vaccinated and lie in the coffin. Let it sink!”

He wrote this article in response to a tweet from Twitter British Broadcasting Corporation The broadcaster pointed out that Northern Ireland has the highest infection rate and mortality rate in the UK, and the lowest vaccination rate.

“If you want to know if you want to get the Covid vaccine today, please think about it,” Stephen Nolan wrote in a tweet. “Use your brain.”

In his Facebook eulogy, Josh Willis wrote that his wife, with him, her mother and their two older children, was “comfortable when they slipped away.”

“I never thought I would write something like this in the next few years, if any,” he wrote.

“I have lost my love for Covid-19, Samantha. Samantha has fought fiercely for the past 16 days, but in the end it was not enough.”

He added: “What I want to do now is to make Samantha proud. I believe she is already looking down on our coping style and proud of our coping style. We are also proud of her, she is an amazing, Caring and caring person, and she has been our superhero for the past few weeks. She is now our guardian angel, and she will always stay in our hearts and thoughts. We love you and miss you. We hope We can help you go home and live the rest of your life with us.”

Josh Willis also thanked the hospital staff who took care of his wife. “You are all truly amazing people, and I will never forget everything you did for Samantha and our family,” he wrote. He has been contacted for further comment.

With the surge in coronavirus infections and deaths this summer, the authorities in Northern Ireland have urged people to get vaccinated.

The country’s Health Minister Robin Swann said on Friday: “The Delta variant is having an impact on Northern Ireland, and it is vital that as many citizens as possible be vaccinated.”