Green Valley COVID-19: Mother of infected removalists found dead inside home

A woman in her 50s has been found dead in her southwest Sydney home after emergency services were called out for a ‘welfare check’ this morning.

The mother of two removalists who travelled to western NSW while positive with COVID-19 has been found dead in her southwest Sydney home.

The 57-year-old woman is the 61st person to die in NSW from COVID-19.

The woman, who is the mother of Roni and Ramsin Shawka, was found in her Green Valley home about 9.15am, with police in PPE roping off the street as an operation is underway.

NSW Police establish a crime scene at Thursday Place Green Valley in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

“Emergency services responded to reports of a concern for welfare at a house in Thursday Place, Green Valley,” the spokesman said. “Officers from Liverpool City Police Area Command attended and located the body of a woman, aged in her 50s, inside the home.

“A report is being prepared for the coroner.”

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A NSW Health spokeswoman said the woman had been diagnosed with COVID-19.

“NSW Health today sadly reports the death of a woman in her 50s who was a confirmed COVID-19 case,” a spokeswoman said.

“She was a resident of south western Sydney and a close contact of a Covid case.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – NewsWire Photos JULY, 19, 2021: A woman wearing PPE as NSW Police establish a crime scene at Thursday Place Green Valley in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

“NSW Health extends its sincere sympathy to her family and friends.”

The NSW Health spokeswoman said the woman was NSW’s 61st death related to Covid — 19, “and the fifth of the current outbreak”.

The Shawka twins were on Friday charged by NSW Police with breaching the public health orders, by travelling between Orange and Molong, in the state’s central west, while knowing they had COVID-19.

Roni and Ramsin Shawka were born in Iraq, but had moved out here less than five years ago with their family.

UNCONFIRMED COVID DEATH

Questions are being raised as to why the 57-year-old was not placed into a South West Sydney Local Health District Hospital or specialist coronavirus facility.

Shadow Health Minister Ryan Park said the news of the woman’s death was “extremely sad, especially for the family and friends”.

“It should be a reminder to everyone just how dangerous this virus is to everyone right across the community,” Mr Park said. “The NSW Government needs to explain why she had not been moved to a hospital facility, given the severity of her symptoms.”

NSW Health has been contacted for comment.