A 23-year-old nurse in the U.K. is reportedly the youngest medic to die from the virus in the country, while nearly 13,000 medical workers in Italy are reported to be infected.
"The loss of a doctor who spent his professional life caring for older people is heartbreaking news. Dr Sebastianpillai had worked for more than forty years in geriatric medicine and was a devoted and respected geriatrician," the president of the British Geriatrics Society, Professor Tash Masud, said in a statement.
The chief executive of the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Len Richards, said:"He was a great surgeon who really provided support to his colleagues as well. The father of seven and grandfather to three worked as a nurse for 20 years at Goodmayes Hospital in Ilford, England. His daughter, Tamira Harvey, said:"My dad was definitely let down. I don't feel that they [NHS staff] are safe at the moment, I don't think that they would think that they're safe," she told ITV News.
"It is with great sadness that I can confirm that Liz Glanister, a long-serving staff nurse at Aintree University hospital, sadly passed away at the Royal Liverpool University hospital on Friday after being tested positive for Covid-19," Liverpool University hospitals NHS foundation trust chief nurse, Dianne Brown, confirmed.Dr.
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