She caught the virus just 10 days ago. Fernanda Ferreira Batista, identifying herself as a friend of Takara, wrote on Facebook Takara was a “woman with dreams and wishes”. 9news Adriana Midori Takara, 38, died in a Sydney hospital 10 days after contracting coronavirus. “Since Covid-19 started all we hear is about numbers. Numbers of cases, numbers of infections, numbers of vaccines, numbers of deaths,” Batista said in the online tribute posted on Sunday. “Well, Adriana is not a number. An amazing friend, not only my friend but friend of so many people.” Her friends and family had to say their final goodbyes over Zoom.