Rosemary Coutou-Figaro, 52, a registered nurse at Kings Brook Hospital in Brooklyn, died on April 9, just 15 days after she tested positive for the virus.

Coutou-Figaro is from south Trinidad and died in New York after testing positive for COVID-19.

She was taken to the emergency room on March 19, with flu-like symptoms. She was sent home with advice that she should rest.

After her symptoms worsened and she was taken to Mt Sinai Hospital, Brooklyn on March 23. She was admitted into the Intensive Care Unit, after developing pneumonia and a chest infection.

She died on April 9at a hospital in Manhattan and leaves behind two kids, 37 and 13.