Uttar Pradesh: Twins Pass Away Hours Apart Just Days After Their 24th Birthday

<p><strong>Meerut:</strong> Joefred Varghese Gregory &amp; Ralfred George Gregory contracted the virus in Hyderabad on April 24th where they both were working after completing computer engineering.&nbsp;</p> <p>After struggling with the virus both of the passed away on May 13th &amp; 14th just hours apart.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>ALSO READ: <span style="color: #f80707;"><a style="color: #f80707;" href="https://ift.tt/2RqHzcC Sood Provides Proof After Odisha DM Denies Actor&rsquo;s Claim Of Arranging Bed At Ganjam Hospital</a></span></strong></p> <p>Joefred &amp; Ralfred were known to do everything together ever since they were children. Their parents were teachers and had to struggle a lot to raise the three children - the twins &amp; their elder brother Nelfred - with the best education they could afford. The twins wanted to give back to their parents and were planning to move aboard for greener pastures.&nbsp;</p> <p>They lived in Meerut's Cantonment area, the family initially treated the brothers at home, thinking the fever would subside. But it didn&rsquo;t. &ldquo;We purchased an oximeter. When their oxygen level dropped to 90, doctors advised us to take them to hospital. We admitted them to a private one on May 1,&rdquo; their father Gregory told TOI. While the first report confirmed that Joefred &amp; Ralfred were positive a PT-PCR test which they took after a few days showed a negative result.&nbsp;</p> <p>The doctors of the the hospital were planning to move the young men out of the ICU to Covid ward but at Gregory's request they were observing them for two more days. The mother Soja got the call on May 13th that Joefred had pass away.&nbsp;Hours later after Ralfred had called his parents to enquire about Joefred's health he too pass away.&nbsp;</p> <p>Gregory told TOI that he knew that if his sons had to make it, they would come home together. Or they wouldn&rsquo;t. &ldquo;Whatever happened to one, it happened to the other,&rdquo; he said.</p> <p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s how it was since their birth. I had told my wife after we got news that Joefred had died that Ralfred won&rsquo;t return home alone either. They died on May 13 and May 14, hours apart," he was quoted as saying.&nbsp;</p>

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