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'Stay at home' video plea from NI healthcare workers goes viral

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A video from frontline coronavirus medics appealing to the public to stay at home has gone viral. The message from doctors, nurses and physiotherapists in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust's respiratory team has received widespread praise as views passed one million within hours of it going online on Sunday night.

By 11am today, it been watched 1.5 million times. In the video, 20 healthcare workers stand in the atrium of Belfast's Mater Hospital - with the recommended two metres between them - with team members taking it in turn to urge people to help limit the spread of Covid-19.

One of them, a respiratory consultant called Angela, says: "We are now at a crucial time, this is not a rehearsal, you will only have one chance at this.

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