A hospital housekeeper died "in complete agony" from coronavirus after cleaning patients' rooms, according to her family.
Rosa Luna, 67, worked at a community hospital in California, where she would clean rooms of patients who were treated for Covid-19.
But Rosa, who worked as a hospital cleaner for 25 years, tragically caught the virus and died on May 4.
Dora Reaza, Rosa's daughter, said her mother took all necessary precautions to stop herself from contracting the virus, and work the correct personal protective equipment (PPE).
But she caught the disease, although her family remain unsure how she contracted it.
Dora told CBS LA : "Her clothes would stay outside. Her shoes would stay outside, and she would immediately take a shower.
"I just want everyone to take this virus very seriously. It seems like nobody is taking it’s seriously, but it is a horrible, horrible disease and you do not want your family member to die like that. My mother died in agony, complete agony."
She added that Rosa's family feared for her safety despite her precautions.
A vigil was held outside the Riverside Community Hospital where Rosa worked to pay tribute to her and all healthcare workers who are putting their lives at risk by helping to fight the virus.
Tributes have since been paid by Rosa's colleagues.
Her manager, Danny Hernandez, said: “She was an amazing person, someone that not only held herself to high standards, but her peers and myself, as her manager.
“She held me to high standards.”
Local union representative Alejandra Aguilera added: "That’s why we are here, because sometimes the folks who do the hardest work are sometimes overlooked. We want to make sure that doesn’t happen here or anywhere else."
Almost 75,000 coronavirus cases have been reported in California, as well as 3,108 deaths.
Elsewhere, a California-based biopharmaceutical company believes it has found an antibody treatment that is a 'cure' for coronavirus.
Sorrento Therapeutics claims the antibody is 100% effective and flushes the disease out of a person's system within four days.
They say the STI-1499 antibody leaves a person with no side effects and could lead to societies being opened up 'without fear'.
"We want to emphasize there is a cure. There is a solution that works 100 percent," Dr. Henry Ji, founder and CEO of Sorrento Therapeutics, told Fox News.
"If we have the neutralizing antibody in your body, you don't need the social distancing. You can open up a society without fear."
Some medical experts have expressed concerns over antibody research and how long the effects would last.
Sorrento Therapeutics said their studies involved screening and testing billions of antibodies from the past decade.
They say a dozen of these showed they were able to block the spike proteins from attaching to the human enzyme ACE2, the receptor a virus usually uses to enter human cells.
