DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) — Eight-year-old Aurea Soto Morales loved the beach, playing in the snow and dancing.
She’s the first child to die of COVD-19 in North Carolina. Her family in Durham is devastated.
“It’s awful,” her 17-year-old sister, Jennifer, said. “I wasn’t expecting a child to die, especially not my sister.”
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Her family said that after four days at UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, Morales passed away June 1 from complications associated with COVID-19. Her family called her “Yoshi,” because of her middle name “Yolotzin.”
“I didn’t get to see her…her last minutes, which is terrible not being able to be next to her,” her sister said.
“It’s a nightmare I never imagined living,” her mother, Araceli Morales Martinez, said in Spanish, as she cried. “It’s such a large pain. I ask all mothers take care of their children, please.”
The entire family