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Filipino nurse, 52, dies from Covid in the NHS hospital where she worked for 18 years

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Filipino nurse, 52, dies from Covid in the NHS hospital where she worked for 18 years as devastated colleagues pay tribute to ‘wonderful’ and ‘caring’ mother-of-two Estrella Catalan, 52, died on Friday after weeks in the critical care unit of hospital She was a staff nurse at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital since 2002  A … Read more

Filipino nurse, 52, dies from Covid in the NHS hospital where she worked for 18 years

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Filipino nurse, 52, dies from Covid in the NHS hospital where she worked for 18 years as devastated colleagues pay tribute to ‘wonderful’ and ‘caring’ mother-of-two Estrella Catalan, 52, died on Friday after weeks in the critical care unit of hospital She was a staff nurse at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital since 2002  A … Read more

Nearly one-third of all US nurses who have died of coronavirus are Filipino

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The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on all healthcare workers, but perhaps none more so than those in the Filipino community. Almost one-third of all American nurses who have died of COVID-19 since January are Filipino – including men and women who immigrated from the Philippines or were born in the US. This is … Read more

Hipster Filipino restaurant which supplied Matt Hancock’s civil servants is forced to close

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A hipster Filipino restaurant which provided almost £50,000 of taxpayer-funded food to Matt Hancock’s civil servants has been driven out of business by the government’s Covid lockdown.  Despite fulfilling ten orders worth thousands each from the Department of Health in the early weeks of the pandemic, Bong Bongs Manila Kanteen in Hackney, east London, was crippled … Read more

Hipster Filipino restaurant which supplied Matt Hancock’s civil servants is forced to close

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A hipster Filipino restaurant which provided almost £50,000 of taxpayer-funded food to Matt Hancock’s civil servants has been driven out of business by the government’s Covid lockdown.  Despite fulfilling ten orders worth thousands each from the Department of Health in the early weeks of the pandemic, Bong Bongs Manila Kanteen in Hackney, east London, was crippled … Read more

Philippines ambassador calls for key worker protection after 13% of Covid-19 deaths were Filipino

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Here are the verified the names of 23 Filipino workers within the UK health and care services who have died with coronavirus.  John Alagos, nurse The 27-year-old nurse treated coronavirus patients at Watford General Hospital. His mother, Gina Gustilo, told the Mail on Sunday he fell ill during a 12-hour shift, but did not leave … Read more

Husband of Filipino nurse, 50, who died of coronavirus says ambulance crew refused to take her

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‘I begged the paramedic, but they left’: Husband of Filipino nurse, 50, who worked for NHS for 18 years tells how ambulance crew refused to take her to hospital… nine days before she died of coronavirus after he drove her himself Amor Padilla Gatinao was a nurse at St Charles Hospital in west London  Her … Read more

Leilani Dayrit Filipino nurse 47 at St Cross Hospital Rugby dies of coronavirus

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Tributes have poured in for a Filipino nurse described as a ‘ray of sunshine’ by her friends, family and colleagues after she died of coronavirus.  Leilani Dayrit, 47, worked as a nurse at St Cross Hospital in Rugby, Warwickshire, and died on April 7.  She leaves behind her husband a daughter, who described her as … Read more