Posted: Dec 17, 2020 12:14 PM MT | Last Updated: December 19, 2020
Tim Huang beside his grandfather-in-law, Bing Kwan, who died of COVID-19.(Submitted by Tim Huang)
An Edmonton couple is grieving the loss of two grandparents to COVID-19 while a third relative battles the virus in hospital.
Tim Huang said his grandmother, Cho-Chih Huang, died of the illness on Dec. 13. She was 99 and lived at the Edmonton Chinese Seniors Lodge. She was taken to the Sturgeon Community Hospital in St. Albert after a fall, he said, and once in hospital tested positive for COVID-19.
Huang said his wife s grandfather, Bing Kwan, also died of the illness this month. He was 101 years old and tested positive for the virus at the Edmonton Chinatown Care Centre, where he died.