Liverpool man Aude Alaskar dies after testing positive to Covid-19

Relatives of a Liverpool man in his 20s who died “suddenly” after contracting Covid-19 have revealed some of the symptoms he experienced.

Details over the shocking death of a Liverpool man in his 20s who died “suddenly” after contracting Covid-19 have been revealed as devastated relatives pay tribute to their “sweetheart”.

Aude Alaskar, 27, who married just three months ago, collapsed inside the Warwick Farm home he shared with his wife in Sydney’s southwest on Tuesday. His wedding party was planned for two months’ time.

A relative of Mr Alaskar’s told The Daily Telegraph that the forklift driver had been in isolation for the past two weeks, having caught the virus from his wife, who works in an aged care facility.

He was on day 13 of his quarantine period when he died.

Speaking to 9News, another relative of Mr Alaskar said he had relatively mild symptoms until lunchtime Tuesday, when he started coughing, vomiting and then collapsed.

Family are in disbelief over the death, who say he was fit and healthy before contracting the virus and that he had no underlying health conditions.

He was unable to be revived by paramedics, with NSW Health confirming Mr Alaskar “suddenly deteriorated.” He was not vaccinated.

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Liverpool man Aude Alaskar. Picture: Facebook

The 27-year-old died “suddenly” of Covid-19. Picture: Facebook

Mr Alaskar’s cousin, Bash Mnati, said his cousin collapsed in the shower about 2:00pm and his wife called an ambulance.

“His head was hurting the day before. He wasn’t feeling well,” Mr Mnati said.

“He was a soccer player, he was a very fit guy. He used to always do sports. He never smoked, doesn’t drink,” he said.

Mr Alaskar’s neighbour, Mimi Anzures, said she heard Mr Alaskar’s wife’s cries of distress.

“At first I heard crying, then shouting and howling,” she told the ABC.

“After that two ambulances came and after a few minutes there were police cars everywhere.”

NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant announced the 27-year-old’s death during the state’s coronavirus update on Wednesday morning.

Asked by reporters why Mr Alaskar wasn’t in hospital, Dr Chant said his condition deteriorated really quickly.

“He was being checked daily and he did complain of feeling a little fatigued but the deterioration happened suddenly,” she said.

“It is important that we understand that with Covid you can get sudden deaths and I think that is important to understand your health status can deteriorate.”

Dr Chant said Mr Alaskar’s wife had now been hospitalised.

“You can imagine the trauma for that other person who has now been hospitalised,” Dr Chant said.

“That person also had Covid and that person has been hospitalised and offered all care.”

Mr Alaskar’s death has been referred to the coroner, Dr Chant added.

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Asked by reporters why Mr Alaskar wasn’t in hospital, Dr Kerry Chant said his condition deteriorated really quickly. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi

Mr Mnati remembered him as an “amazing person, such a sweetheart”.

“You can ask people all around, he’s never been in fights or had problems, never had any issue with family or friends, everyone loved him, he was such a great person,” Mr Mnati said.

“He was a real diamond.”

A man who told NCA NewsWire he was Mr Alaskar’s cousin shared his grief on Facebook, describing the death as a painful tragedy.

“Our prayers to God to bless him in his spacious paradise,” Atheer Aljabbari posted.

A women in her 80s also died from covid in the most recent reporting period in Greater Sydney, the 16th person to die in the current outbreak, with another 233 new cases detected in NSW in the last 24 hours.

Dr Chant confirmed the woman had not been vaccinated.

Mr Alsakar’s wife was rushed to Liverpool Hospital. Picture: Jeremy Piper

‘People are dying’

The deaths prompted the federal opposition to call out the government for Australia’s delayed vaccine rollout, with Shadow Health Minister Mark Butler descrbing the deaths as tragic.

“People are dying without being fully vaccinated,” Mr Butler said.

“The tragedies unfolding in Greater Sydney really enforce just how profoundly wrong Scott Morrison was when he said that the vaccine rollout was not a race.”

Dr Greg Kelly, an Intensive Care specialist in Sydney, told Patricia Karvelas on the ABC that the death of Mr Alaskar and the 38-year-old Brazilian national last week, show that “this disease can affect young and healthy people.

Dr Kelly said he was seeing “far more” children in hospital now with coronavirus than what he did last year.

“Right now our hospital system is managing greater than 100 children with covid,” he said.

But, he pleaded with Australians that the “health system is functioning, we’re making the steps to be able to deal with patients.

“If you’re felling unwell then call an ambulance, come to hospital, don’t stay at home if your condition is deteriorating.”