A nurse who was on the frontline of the coronavirus battle has died after she tested positive for the deadly bug. Mum-of-three Areema Nasreen, 36, had been on a ventilator at Walsall Manor Hospital after developing a temperature, body aches and a cough.
Areema, who had worked for the NHS for more than 16 years, then tested positive for Covid-19. She is reported to have died in the early hours of today.
She is the youngest NHS worker to die from coronavirus so far during the outbreak. Areema's sister said she was 'fit and healthy' before the diagnosis with no underlying conditions.
The 36-year-old, from Walsall, is reported to have first taken ill in mid-March and by March 22 she was reported to have been on a ventilator.