A healthy dad died with Covid just three days before a letter arrived inviting him to book a vaccine appointment. Tony McFayden, 70, who passed away in hospital on February 1, had no underlying health issues, according to his family.
The former lorry driver, from Southport, Merseyside, who only retired in November, is believed to have contacted the virus around a month before he died.
Daughter Kelly Williams said she took her dad to the hospital herself after he told her he'd "never felt so ill in his life", reports the Liverpool Echo.
Paying tribute to her dad, Kelly, 39, said: "He was very generous and always giving the grandkids money for sweets. "He was very loving and just a really generous man.