Nurse, 53, dies from coronavirus after urging Facebook friends to wash hands and stay home
A NURSE has died from coronavirus just weeks after he urged people on Facebook to wash their hands and stay at home.
The tragic news comes as the number of NHS workers killed by Covid-19 has reached 104 — a rise of 61 in a week.
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Dad Larni Zuniga, 53, who worked at CHD Living’s Surrey Hills care home near his home at Godalming in Surrey, died on Friday at St Thomas’ Hospital in London.
The medic, originally from the Philippines, was granted British citizenship in February. He had battled the infection for two weeks.
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His devastated daughter Mutya said: “I can’t stop crying. It’s too painful to bear, you are the best dad.”
Ward manager Andy Costa, 58, who devoted 26 years of his life to the NHS, died on Friday.
His bosses at Highgate Mental Health Centre in North London hailed his “diligence and loyalty”.
Jenny Esson, 45, was a trainer and development co-ordinator at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust’s Recovery College — a mental health facility.
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She died in hospital on April 17 and was described by daughter Kaisa as “the best person I’ve ever met”.
Melonie Mitchell, 53, an NHS 111 worker for the London Ambulance Service, passed away last week, one of three staffers killed by coronavirus in three weeks.
Grandmother Esther Akinsanya, 55, a nurse at Queen Elizabeth Hospital at Woolwich in South East London, was killed by the bug on April 15.
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She died at the hospital where she worked. Her nurse sister Mary Idowu, 61, was last night fighting for her life in intensive care.
Tributes were yesterday paid to Clive Stubbs, 66, an actor and writer from Norwich, whose family said he “had a big heart and was very warm”. He passed away earlier this month.
Former BBC Radio 4 Farming Today presenter Richard Sanders, 62, has died after contracting the virus in hospital.
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