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Nurse, 38, fighting for life with coronavirus after treating patients 'without PPE'

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A hero NHS nurse has been left fighting for her life with coronavirus after treating a patient with the disease - without being provided any personal protective equipment.

Becky Usher, 38, remains in an intensive care unit where she is in an induced coma and relying on a ventilator to breath after testing positive for the deadly disease.

Relatives claim that Becky was not provided with any PPE when treating the patient – who staff did not initially know the patient had coronavirus – at Dewsbury and District Hospital for two days.

Becky first developed a high temperature and a sore throat on Sunday, April 5. She experienced breathing difficulties at her home in Heckmondwike, West Yorks, on Tuesday and began to slur her words, so her worried

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