British light Heavyweight boxer, Anthony Yarde has lost his father, who passed away after battling a coronavirus infection.
The 28-year-old made the tragic announcement on his Instagram account in the early hours of Sunday, adding that his dad had no underlying health conditions.
Yarde urged everyone to stay at home and not spread the deadly virus further as the pandemic takes hold around the world.
He wrote: ‘I’m a very private person and TBH I’m still in shock but maybe this can help people stay home.
‘My Dad passed away from this virus yesterday and he was fit with no health issues.
The more people go out and mingle the longer this isolation will last and the more it will spread. ‘I’m not a doctor but I do know if you stay home you are less likely to catch it or pass it on. It’s seriously not worth the risk.’
Yarde, who hails from Hackney in east London, has 20 fights to his name, winning 19 of them, losing only one.
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His only defeat came against the Russian Sergey Kovalev in a match for the WBO light heavyweight title in August 2019.
Yarde had been scheduled to fight Lyndon Arthur for the Commonwealth light heavyweight title at the O2 Arena in London on April 11, on the undercard of another all-British contest between Daniel Dubois and Joe Joyce.
The event has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic with British Boxing Federation announcing all their events would be postponed until April 30 at the earliest
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