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NHS nurse raises £30,000 to connect coronavirus patients with their families

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A nurse has raised a staggering £30,000 to pay for tablets so that coronavirus patients in hospital can speak to their loved ones.

Leona Harris is a staff nurse on a Covid-19 isolation ward at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury and has witnessed first-hand the devastation caused by the lockdown, which restricts families from visiting patients to try and slow the spread of the virus.

Along with her husband Nick, she launched the #staytogether campaign so that critically-ill patients have a chance to keep in touch with their friends and families when they cannot visit hospitals.

The money has been partially raised by a GoFundMe page which generated £2,600, but a further £27,500 was generated by Nick's colleagues at Manchester-based law firm

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