Fif­teen days af­ter 78-year-old Zori­da Wahid Khan re­turned to her home in Queens, New York, af­ter va­ca­tion­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go, she test­ed pos­i­tive for the COVID-19.

Five days af­ter be­ing di­ag­nosed with the virus, Khan, who was orig­i­nal­ly from Tacarigua, died at a hos­pi­tal Fri­day.

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia, one of Khan’s rel­a­tives said she spent three months va­ca­tion­ing in Trinidad and left for her New York home on March 14.

“From the air­port in New York she went straight in­to self-iso­la­tion and it was while there she de­vel­oped flu-like symp­toms. It wors­ened and five days ago she test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 and they had her in quar­an­tine at the hos­pi­tal un­til her death this morn­ing (Fri­day). She was vul­ner­a­ble, as she al­so suf­fered from heart is­sues,” the rel­a­tive, who did not want to be iden­ti­fied, said.

Khan was the moth­er of three, had eight grand­chil­dren and one great-grand­child.

The rel­a­tive de­scribed Khan as the “ma­tri­arch of our fam­i­ly...the Ali’s from St Micheal Road in Tacarigua...In­na lil­lahi wa in­na ilay­hi ra­ji’in,” the rel­a­tive said.

“She lived a long, won­der­ful life, mak­ing sure every­one around you was good,” she added.

The rel­a­tive re­mem­bered how se­ri­ous­ly Khan took her re­li­gion.

“She didn’t make joke when it came to her re­li­gion. I re­mem­ber that one Ra­mad­han I stayed with her and how hap­py she was that I fast­ed. But what I thought was amaz­ing is that she was such a free-spir­it­ed per­son,” she said.

“Any be­liev­er who dies from this virus is a death of a mar­tyr. May Al­lah ac­cept her in jan­nah til fir­douse. Ameen.”