NSW Covid death: Adriana Midori Takara’s final goodbyes through hospital window

Adriana Midori Takara, 39, died hours after her brother and boyfriend said goodbye through a hospital window after she tested positive to Covid only days earlier.

Covid struck student Adriana Midori Takara died hours after her brother and boyfriend said their goodbyes through a hospital window after she rapidly deteriorated within days of testing positive to the strain she caught from a friend.

Miss Takara’s boyfriend Khalid and brother, Helio Eiki Takara, received an urgent call on Saturday afternoon from a doctor at Royal Prince Alfred hospital urging them to visit a final time before her life support machine would be switched off.

The 39-year-old Kaplan Business School masters student had tried on “numerous” occasions to get an appointment for a Covid-19 vaccination in the weeks before falling ill on July 15 but was informed on the NSW Health vaccine portal no appointments were available until after October.

Adriana Midori Takara, 39, died at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on Sunday, 10 days after contracting the Covid Delta strain.

She died 10 days after first falling ill. Her friend, who tested positive to the strain earlier the same week, remains in hotel quarantine.

“Her brother and her boyfriend got a call from the hospital Saturday afternoon saying ‘come quickly, she doesn’t have long to live”, friend Marlene Coimbra told The Daily Telegraph.

“She caught the virus from someone she knew, who tested for the virus the same week and her results came back positive on the Thursday - that’s when Adriana and her boyfriend quickly got tested.

“She went straight into a quarantine hotel and the next day, the Friday, she was vomiting, had headaches and was struggling to breathe.

“She went to the hospital on the Saturday when she had a heart attack and underwent surgery on the Sunday but then got thrombosis in the legs.

“They put her in an induced coma so her body could recover but she never did.

“She was unconscious the whole time that she was there and on her last day, Saturday, a few blocks away, the anti-vaxxers were protesting.

“Those protesters are an insult to what happened to her. Adriana was such a beautiful, modest soul and may still be alive today if she got the vaccine.

“The doctors switched off her machine on Sunday morning at 6am. Everyone is devastated.”

The finance worker, who emigrated to Australia in 2019, was described as deeply kind and modest.

The accountancy student is believed to have contracted the virus from someone she knew who tested positive to the strain the same week she did.

The Brazilian national, an Australian citizen who studied accountancy and worked part time as a cleaner, was one of two new Covid-19 related deaths announced on Sunday, taking the total number of deaths in this outbreak to eight.

The death of the student, originally from São Paulo, has shocked tight-the knit expat community of students who use the Kaplan Business School for support and educational guidance.

Friends took to social media to pay tribute to the finance worker, who emigrated to Australia in 2019.

“Adriana is a daughter, sister, aunty, niece and specially a friend. An amazing friend, not only my friend but friend of so many people,” Fernanda Ferreira Batista posted on Sunday.

The Brazilian Consulate in Sydney has been in contact with her father and brother and sister in São Paulo.

A friend added: “Her father is elderly and has been deeply shocked by her death, her mother is no longer alive and she has another brother and sister in Brazil.

“The irony is in Brazil there are protests against the president for being an anti-vaxxer and her father had hoped Adriana would be able to get the vaccine and lead a safer life in Australia.

“Now he has to bury her.”