Kayla Williams, 36, from Peckham, south London, died with suspected coronavirus

A 36-year-old woman died in her flat a day after calling 999 with symptoms of Covid-19 and being told to look after herself at home.

Mother-of-three Kayla Williams died at home on Saturday. The day before, her husband called paramedics to their home in Peckham, south London, the Guardian reports.

Fabian Williams said his wife was ‘breathless, vomiting and had pains in her stomach’. The newspaper claims to have seen documents that confirm paramedics were treating her as a suspected coronavirus case.

Fabian, a refuse collector, said Kayla was suffering from a cough, high fever and had severe chest and stomach pains when he called 999. ‘As I was talking to them she was getting worse and they told me to put her on the floor and to make her body flat,’ he told the newspaper. He claims that when a paramedic arrived at the flat at 8.32am, he was told ahospital would not take his wife in as ‘she is not a priority’.




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A London Ambulance Service spokesperson told the newspaper: ‘We were called at 8.32am on Friday March 20 to reports of a person unwell at an address in Peckham. Our clinicians treated a patient and advised them to call back if their condition changed.

‘We were called the following day at 3.24pm and sent a number of resources with our first medics arriving in under seven minutes. Sadly, the patient had died. Our sympathy is with the family at this time.

‘We are working incredibly hard in these unprecedented times to look after Londoners.’

According to the Guardian, ambulance service documents made during Friday’s visit list Kayla as suffering from ‘?Cov 19’. Symptoms described were: ‘non productive cough … headache … chest pains all over’.

The note advised ‘self-care, use anti-pyretics, increase food/fluid’ and for Fabian to call 999 ‘for emergency, use 111 online for advice’.

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