SASKATOON -- A 34-year-old North Battleford health care worker died on Monday from cardiac arrest after testing positive from COVID-19. “It was really shocking news to everyone, very hard to accept because he was healthy and we never expected this,” a close friend of Tom Thomas, Antony Mathew, told CTV News. Thomas was a nurse in Kerala, India and brought his passion of caring for people to Canada when he moved in 2016. He leaves behind his wife and 18-month-old daughter. Thomas tested positive for COVID-19 on Feb. 6 and was isolating in his apartment with his wife and child, Mathew said.