British boxer Anthony Yarde has announced his grandmother has died from coronavirus.
She is the second member of his family to die as a result of the pandemic, following his father’s death.
The 28-year-old appealed to people to “just stay home” as he said his grandmother had died on Thursday.
“My dad and his mother have passed just days apart,” the light-heavyweight fighter wrote on social media.
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