The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have told colleagues of the first Brit doctor to die from coronavirus that they and the whole country feel immense pride in them.
Prince William and wife Kate phoned staff at the Queen’s Hospital in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, to offer their condolences over the passing of hero medic Amged El-Hawrani.
The NHS consultant, who contracted Covid-19 on the front line of the battle against it, died in hospital on Saturday at the age of just 55.
His loved ones remembered him as a dedicated professional and family man. William, 37, told a small group of doctors and nurses at the Midlands hospital: “We would just like to say from the two of us how proud we are of all of you and how amazingly you are all