family have told of their heartache after a 'healthy' mum and son died of coronavirus within seven hours of each other. Mark Wakefield, 53, and his mother Dorothy Wakefield, 79, both lost their fight against the killer virus on Saturday.The pair, who lived next door to each other in Cornwallis Street, Stoke, had been rushed to the Royal Stoke University Hospital last month where a test confirmed both had Covid-19.
At one point Dorothy appeared to be well enough to be discharged, only for her to be struck down with pneumonia, Stoke on Trent Live reports.
The former pottery worker passed away at 4am, while dad-of-one Mark - who had been in an induced coma for a week - died shortly before 11am.Now Emily Murrell - the granddaughter of Dorothy.
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