Over 200 health and care staff have died from virus

AT LEAST 202 health and care workers have been identified after dying with coronavirus.

Through tributes from loved ones and confirmation through sources such as local NHS trusts and other authorities, the PA news agency has confirmed the names of health and social care workers who have died after contracting Covid- 19 since March 11.

Each of them had been working in roles shortly before their deaths where they were likely to come into contact with patients. The true figure is likely to be higher though as the names of some victims are not yet public.

Among those to have died in Yorkshire are Richzeal Albufera, a 45- year- old biomedical scientist at Castle Hill Hospital, part of Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Dr Abdel Wahab Babiker, a 70- year- old consultant physician who had worked at Scarborough Hospital since August 2019, and Dr Nasir Khan, a father- of- three and locum doctor working at Dewsbury and District Hospital.

Tributes have been paid to “hugely popular and respected” consultant geriatrician Dr Medhat Atalla, who worked at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, and to Josiane Zauma Ebonja Ekoli, a mother- of- five and agency nurse who lived in Leeds and worked at Harrogate Hospital.

Two members of staff at Yorkshire Ambulance Service also died in hospital on the same day – April 30 – after contracting Covid19. Both were married and had families, with the service saying they had “worked tirelessly for many years serving their local communities”.

Mark Stanley, was a 57- year- old paramedic who was said to be extremely fit and had no underlying health conditions. The name of the emergency medical technician was not made public.