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Coronavirus: NHS doctor speaks about his father’s fight with coronavirus

“My father could have stayed at home and avoided all of this, but this was not the kind of person he was.”

Doctor Adel El-Tayar came out of retirement to help the NHS fight the coronavirus outbreak, but became one of the first medical staff to die from it.
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