{"id":35096,"date":"2025-08-13T17:40:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/covid-mum-of-five-karen-hobbs-dies-aged-40-3\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:40:44","slug":"covid-mum-of-five-karen-hobbs-dies-aged-40-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/covid-mum-of-five-karen-hobbs-dies-aged-40-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid: Mum-of-five Karen Hobbs dies, aged 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The family of a 40-year-old mother-of-five who died with coronavirus have urged people to respect lockdown rules.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Karen Hobbs had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former EasyJet cabin crew member developed symptoms a week before Christmas, was not able to get out of bed and started struggling to breathe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was taken to hospital and died on 19 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Karen&#8217;s sister Rachel Hobbs said her normally healthy sister became very ill over Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She just looked dreadful, Christmas Day she was laid up in bed, she couldn&#8217;t do anything,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I knew she was really bad but I&#8217;d never seen anybody like that before, it was shocking, for someone that healthy to be barely able to walk to a car is quite shocking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-55825283?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of a 40-year-old mother-of-five who died with coronavirus have urged people to respect lockdown rules. Karen Hobbs had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid-19. The former EasyJet cabin crew member developed symptoms a week before Christmas, was not able to get out of bed and started struggling to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[2180,802,1017,2321,2320,2319],"class_list":["post-35096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-have-your-say","tag-aged","tag-covid","tag-dies","tag-hobbs","tag-karen","tag-mumoffive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35098,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096\/revisions\/35098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}